I used to play this when I was a kid
Interest waned as I grew older

This game was once one of the best games of its time, graphically, gameplayed and stylishly. I loved to play CS2D in CS2D - Halo skins and sounds pack V2 (92) mod. Nowadays it's very outdated game, but still love it.

There seems to be a total of 1 cheats on all servers at the moment

Doesn't matter if it's 1 or 100 different cheats. 1 is enough to ruin the experience for everyone if it works and is used.

of course it's true but 1 cheat can only be on 1 server at a time

Not true

If there's a good thing about having few players, is that only a couple of servers remain active and luckily there's usually an admin or mod a Discord PM away from solving the 1 cheater issue.

I remember the chaotic situation some servers had years ago, with hackers being able to go through walls, literally a client side no-clip and servers being full of "hackbots" spinning like crazy with aimbot.

A remnant and kind of like little Easter Egg from this time is one of CS2D's default bot names, "Adon-little", which I'm pretty sure is a reference to hacker known at the time as ADONRADON and a hack which was called "DC-LITTLE". Here's an obscure piece of useless trivia for y'all.

Edit
Bot names - "little"

Since DC isn't thinking about moving further with this game I guess it's the old members responsability to afford a better gameplay by improuving this game for new players who're obviously kids just to let them enjoy the game as we've used to do.

I'm always up for any kind of help.