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- Dec 18, 2020
Online didn't cause it. Rockstar was still patching shit for single player. As far as I know single player plays like GTAV's in that it's a separate beast with different graphics qualities and AI behavior.
Rockstar is just shit at maintaining or fixing their games. They tried fixing an exploit in single player that let you get to New Austin early so you could unlock that final costume thingy by doing all the challenges without having to wait for Epilogue. Introduced a bunch of other problems in the process, this was before Online released. Everything else worked fine, very little problems, but trying to fix that one exploit - that harmed no one, mind - opened a floodgate where they kept making shit worse each time and trying to fix the last thing they broke. Their code is like Jenga or some shit.
They specifically reduced graphical quality in the console versions when Online launched so pretty sure it had something to do with it.
Not to mention the "aren't you freezing?" glitch is a direct result of them messing with weather variable for online features.