Learning curve in this game is too steep with different weapons, using camera angle, hiding properly, ranking contacts takes time, weapon ranks take time and then you get matches against veteran players too many times and some might feel like cheating while getting better and now you get frustrated enough that you borrow daddy's credit card and go looking for private cheats than learning your way through.
Now this one guy is selling you undetected cheat for let's say 30 bucks and is telling you to spread the word to your friends if they play and creator of that hack is old APB player with too many bans and wants to do harm to APB: Reloaded just for own amusement, but little did he know that kid with that hack now spreads it like it's gold and the problem starts.
Now this hack creator sees huge money hole with those hacks and starts making them better and keeping them updated and selling more of them while this plague of cheaters keeps happening and he just smiles while some even gets banned, but because anti-cheat does not do what it is supposed to do or it's deactivated and game does not get updated to make hack creator job harder it just goes on and on like a wildfire and soon game is actually dead, because there are only cheater vs. cheater matches left.
This issue also prevents them from buying anything with their daddy's credit card from armas anymore, because this hack creator might've found a way to give you guns etc. so you don't have to buy any of that stuff.
Now we legit players are left to watch how APR: Reloaded slowly, but surely dies and either try to play against cheaters or uninstall and that's that.