I have damage turned off personally :P Never ruins my enjoyment of the game, yeah it adds an extra dimension of course. But having crap or no damage doesn't cause me to turn it off.
Online lobbies are quiet because: they got rid of 'open lobbies'. You have traditional invite only lobbies still, in the usual style, but then you have these 'hoppers', which to be quite frank, are crap. Good for casual, or a one off - oo what's this, but it's unstructured and after a while will be dead as a dodo.
Dunno what was wrong with an 'open' invite only style lobby like we had in 2010-14, then you close it if you want to be with friends etc.
Also madotter, sounds good man, I'm thinking heavily about a T300GTE to replace my now obsolete, but still functional
:/, Logitech G27.