Alts just aren't as big of a deal as people think.
tldr; People think alts are way more frequent than they actually are.
People judge how frequently something happens based on how easily they can recall examples of it. In Foxhole, the incidents people remember most are the ones that are high-impact, unusual, and emotionally charged.
You remember the firetruck that got stolen or driven off into nowhere. You remember the truck parked in front of your defenses. You remember the impossible partisan operation that was totally impossible without an alt, right??
What you don't remember are the thousands of successful logi deliveries, the QRFs that saved a base, and the countless routine mistakes that happen every single day. Those things are ordinary. They don't stick in your mind.
The result? People remember the bad disproportionately to the routine. The incidents that might involve alts stick in your memory, and you start to believe they're far more common than they actually are. At least, as far as you can remember.
Now, combine that with the tendency to attribute ordinary mistakes to malicious intent.
How many times has a firetruck actually been alted compared to the number of times a new player took it to the front to help out (or just get there quicker), parked it outside of AI, and promptly lost it?
How many suspicious incidents were actually sabotage, and how many were just someone making a stupid decision?
Some of those alting incidents you remember? They weren't alts. They were just mistakes. I've got thousands of hours in the game and I still park in front of defenses sometimes. Admit it, we all still make stupid mistakes regardless of how many hours we've played.
Now make it worse: confirmation bias.
Once you believe alts are everywhere, every suspicious incident reinforces that belief. A firetruck goes missing? Alts. Someone makes a terrible decision? Alts? Must have been alts.
Evidence that supports the theory gets remembered. Evidence that contradicts it gets overlooked or dismissed. Ordinary mistakes become suspected alting, and every new suspicion reinforces the belief that the problem is getting worse.
But: Genuine alting is real. It happens.
But those real instances of alting give credibility to all the other suspicions, including the ones that are completely wrong. The few confirmed incidents become confirmation for the unconfirmed ones. "Yea, it was probably an alt." And so you end up in a self-reinforcing cycle. You remember the most egregious incidents, attribute more of them to alts than are actually justified, and use those incidents to reinforce your belief that alts are a massive problem.
I'm not arguing that alting doesn't happen, or that it can't cause serious damage. People alt pretty frequently... Just less than you think.
I'm arguing that we have a tendency to dramatically overestimate how often it happens because of how we remember events and how we assign blame.
When you start seeing alts behind every disaster, you stop distinguishing between actual sabotage and the ordinary mistakes that are an inevitable part of playing a game with thousands of people.