Everything that consists of playing alone looses value at some point
I mean, try to play Tennis alone, will it ever work? DSF has the highest replay value of all Driver games, for a simple reason: it has an online mode… and everyone is playing it, else it wouldn't be full all the time.
So what you think is fun is the customisation, that's what keeps you bothered with Driver 3 at the moment. My question is, if that wouldn't have been possible with Driver 3, would you still play it? Every day, the way I do it with DSF? I can't imagine to be honest…
So if you ask me, it needs to be a fair play. Don't compare modding, compare games, the way they've been released. And you can very much loose cops without shift (I do it all the time and it isn't even hard), that shows me you haven't played the game enough to know how cops in this game work
Not sure what you meant with buggy traffic either, I have no problems! It's THE BEST GAME EVER!