>>406735940
Congrats, you cracked the puzzle. While avatar performance and optimization is very important, the game itself doesn't scale all too well and just having players in your instance murders your framerate, avatars shown or not.
Also, avatar hider doesn't disable animators anymore, which are probably one of the most CPU-intensive parts of optimized avatars right now (and every avatar must have one in order for just about anything to work). This change was done because it didn't play nicely with animators that use write defaults or more complex state machines.
I think it's better if VRC just told people to fix their animators, but they have to cater to the average person who may not be willing or able to do so.

>>406737693
Then get online and make an instance yourself. I find that if you get online and maybe bring 2-3 friends online with you, many more people will follow and then you have a meetup. There's nice world explorations on most weekdays too.
Movie-watching doesn't interest me much either, but just getting online is better than complaining.