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>official servers
Those are 'lobbies', hosted on cloud managed servers like most modern games. Only community ones remain like old dedicated.
>basic modes/maps
The official maps suck balls so nobody plays them. S&D, TDM and PUSH are all official modes being played somewhere.
>bots
They're only in the offline mode and you'd see why. There are some good custom zombie maps though.
>Would always be populated
Even right now at the lowest population in years you still have options.
>without just getting blasted with no chance of improvement
Git gud or don't play deathmatch