I used to play wf with friends years ago but only actually got into it myself bc of the 1999 update, and I was so convinced I just didn't care about the operator, that only the drifter story spoke to me, that every operator plot was just a slog before I could get back to the stuff I actually cared about
Somehow, in my infinite wisdom, I thought making my operator the behavioural opposite of my drifter would help create a lore reason for my personal divide. If my drifter was rowdy and extroverted and the angry victim type I generally gravitate towards, then my operator should therefore be cold and asocial and emotionless - incapable of feeling the same emotions, even.
Fool that I was, thinking the box of traits I was building the reclusive, anhedonic child neglected by their guardians from wasn't just another mirror again.