Some TM lore about me,
I started playing trackmania all the way back in 2009 with TMNF - during my early years of playing trackmania I've also played TMO. Although I enjoyed the many hours wasted on online servers, when Maniaplanet came around the corner I quit TM and pc gaming. The reasoning behind this; I didn't understand the game, as in my english wasn't proficient enough to understand and why I probably had to pay to play and I basically didn't like the colorscheme either (real reason xd).
Many years past, until the nostaglia hit when I saw TMT for the xbox on the ads in 2016 - I tried it and disliked it servely, it wasn't what I knew the game to be. It also didn't help that I saw trackmania as a keyboard game and hated the joystick for it, I again quit the game for good now, at least I thought so.
Because in 2020/2021 I got hit with another slap of nostalgia due to a certain user by the name of Wirtual, a video of him popped up on my feed and I decided to start playing TMT again. Although I had a massive hate towards the campaign (I also only played stadium and didn't care for the other envi's except canyon) because the maps didn't feel like anything I remembered it to be. So what I did was I started mapping, a lot. Many of these you can find here:
https://players.turbo.trackmania.com/xb1/profile/pawytujo-xb156c9a25216530?maps_page=2
I learned a lot from mapping in TMT, loved and hated the limitation and I still do in TM2020 - that's how I became your average console editor enjoyer ^_^