-People with shit PC's can't always make records
Nor can people with shit pings. GTA:SA is not the most demanding game and we can't hold ourselves back for the sake of a few people who refuse to upgrade.
-It only works sometimes e.g. I have had fps limiter on in a plane race once and it didn't let me have the record, the next time it did....
If the implementation is flawed that says nothing about the idea
-All the records that currently stand can't be beaten and are unfair, and there are far too many to go back and clear records
So what's the alternative? Force everyone to start FPS abusing so that's it's fair again? I think it's fairer and easier just ban what the minority is unfairly doing. And there may be a lot of records to delete but compared to the alternative you're proposing it's the lesser of two evils.
-it's the way it's always been and it's just part of the game
FPS abuse is a new "innovation" and even though it was always part of the game (for boats, for example) it is stil extremely annoying to do. By not allowing it, we free ourselves from the need to make our games borderline unplayable
- It's players own loss if they choose not to FPS abuse or even use it strategically
You could say this for any kind of abuse. "Oh yeah well everyone uses lamp mods so it's your loss if you don't", "it's your loss if you want to run 100m and not take steroids". In both those cases and the case of FPS abuse, the fair thing to do is to ban the obviously unfair techniques of winning to allow everyone to play fairly
- It sometimes says "record making deactivated at any random time"
Not sure what that means
So I think we should just go back to the old ways
Why? Do you really care about players with terrible PCs? Do you not care about the players who can't even use FPS limit properly? (it doesn't work for everyone) Wouldn't you rather play without all this stress about FPS or are your old records too hard to let go of?