MK8 is cool and all (love playing as link and villager lol and I like what they did with most courses) but I can’t stand 200cc (it shaped the meta from having a really decent spread of cars to looking literally like a monkey kindergarten cuz the kiddy stuff handles extreme speeds the best) and the fact that you can’t pick your own course to put up on vote.
Ah, I mostly played MK8 on the Wii U before the small characters became popular. I still play a big heavy kart now, it's harder to control but it goes a lot faster if you stay on the right lines. Also, since when can you not pick your own courses? I'm convinced that it was possible back in the day

MK8 on the Wii U did have the firehopping though. Now that was a broken, hated mechanic. Like most people I knew how to do it and I did, but it just felt wrong.