CnR servers are DM sided. MCNR became TDM server at one point(still is tbh). This rule change was supposed to be QoL update. Yes it made it easier for criminals also in someway, know handful of people that never did enough crimes to become MW, to avoid being hunted down. Theres still big issue, that's the cops. Having unlimited spawns, lose almost nothing on death, besides their own personal vehicle if they used it. Not even going to mention how that update increased cop ratio, but that's another topic to be dealt with.
The server wouldn't survived long enough with that rule implemented (that's my opinion and it needed change). There was choice to be made, server with 20-40 DMing regulars or potential 70+ players, that do things around map, whatever it may be fishing/trucking(lmao)/robbing/drug trafficking/arms dealing or item vendoring(hopefully to be added soon) and missions. As I've seen, Mike is forcing player to interact with others, more than ever now.
Players who liked to go killing spree on newbies now have to use 2 brain cells instead of 1, to find a proper reason. People saying who are saying "oh crews don't have reason to go and kill another crew members" - you're clearly wrong about that one. If you didn't want to provoke others, it's now your time to man up and find out how, be smoked or be the smoker yourself.