#1 - People don't go back down mining for more gold in the middle of a game mostly because they can drop people that either have gold and no apples or apples and no gold and they can recraft them. There's no way to "craft" health pots without melons which you cant get in badlion uhc's. And yes they might run out its potpvp. People drop a lot more in build with gapples than in nodebuff with pots. Pots take 1 right click to use not 3 seconds of holding it while getting crit out. Using basic logic its harder to drop with them.

#2 - I realize it's not the hosts fault if they die like that, I'm just saying people will give the scenario hate for it, causing hosts to host it less often making it end up like rodless. I already talked about throwing it straight up, but if you are "stuck" in the river you will get bowed out of range of the pot. Yes you could throw it at the ground but it only heals half as much as it should, making you use like 5 pots to get back to full instead of 2.

#3 - Haven't seen that gravel glitch in forever, but yes badlion has a lot of noobs and randoms that like to complain about pot lag. That's the problem, a majority of uhc's are consisted of non donors that don't know what they are doing and are playing for the first time or something. I just don't think hosts want to deal with all the extra whining kids even when pot lag isn't actually a problem.

#4 - All problems have solutions, it's whether people actually choose to use those solutions or not. People bow spam and lava spam too much in build. Solution: remove lava or bow. It's a problem that has a solution, but will that problem ever be solved?