idea: allows us to host custom servers with custom balance

Hello.
I think it would be a good idea to give us players the option to host custom servers with custom balance. The server host would be able to change numeric values for: passive skills, skill gems, support gems, items, monster stats and density, monster abilities and item drop rates.
This way different states of balance could be tested and players could experience different versions of PoE 2 combat that are more to their liking.
Private servers could have different challenge levels, loot abundance/scarcity, slower/faster combat pace. A custom balanced server could have a singular commitment to their target group and provide regular balancing.

There's zero chance they would give out their server/netcode.... It's handing the keys to castle over. Why would a company give out everything needed to make cheats/bots that go undetected.

There are already private Leagues.
They could let us upload a file with all the changed numbers on their official website and the private league implements them on server restart. The upload could be similiar done to uploading an item filter.

I see what ya mean, I come from the IT world were hosting a server means well being the one actual hosting it on your hardware. I still don't see them letting people change value like that as 99% of the people doing it would just crack up drop rates to make the game easy mode. That is how ruthless mode came to be though, some streamers wanted a harder mode a did a couple private leagues like ruthless before it became a thing you could just pick.