The custom server has many changes to it. It's there for experimenting with configs and maps.
I'm sorry you feel so poorly about how things are progressing with Insurgency. The issue is that the things you want to change are the very things that make Insurgency unique and different from other FPS games like COD4. Insurgency offers a fresh and new FPS experience with a very different focus. It's a big contrast from older games like COD. Things such as limited loadouts and no kill feed are original to the game. They are things that make Insurgency so different from the games you've played before. Changing Insurgency to be just like all the games you've gotten bored of in the past will not make the game better; it will ensure it's slow death. Insurgency is not here to be a COD4 replacement. It's not even close to the same type of FPS game. Cod is about run-n-gun, KDR, spray-n-pray, and power-ups (like cars, UAV, nukes, etc). In contrast, insurgency is about you and your gun working together with your team to coordinating your attack or form a flawless defense. It's about tactics and using your head while you fight. Why should the game tell you if you got the kill? Shouldn't you use your eyes and be careful where you shoot lest you give away your position? It's about talking to your team to see who should equip the smokes to shield your advance to the checkpoint, or who will carry the c4 to the cache to blow it up. If you give everybody on the team enough kit points to equip as many grenades as they can throw, that will kill the necessity of team communication. Why talk to your team if you can just go "one-man-army" and take the cache out by yourself? Over equipping the team will unbalance the game. It would make it like the battlefield series where everybody gets a full kit, a tank, a heli, and an RPG. This is why the BF series is just a giant chaotic battle scene where every player is doing their own thing. You can hardly even get a teammate to jump into a heli with you for more than half a minute.
We (the Insurgency admin team) are doing our very best to make changes to Insurgency that ENHANCE all the good qualities of the game, not undermine them. If a change request is one that will make tactics, stealth, and team communication only optional, then it will not be changed. Insurgency offers a unique gameplay experience and that is what originally drew myself and others to play the game. If these things do not sound appealing to you and you would rather bunny hop around the map spraying down walls looking for hit-markers then Insurgency is not for you. Maybe you should stick to the Cod series? On the other hand, if these are qualities that interest you, lets capitalize on them and build these servers! Lets encourage team communication and tactical gameplay. Accept how Insurgency is different and new. It offers something different from Cod or BF. Lets not turn it into the those games. Insurgency offers more than that.
Positive feedback is very welcome. I do not mean to "jump on" anyone who offers an alternative opinion. I apologize if my protectiveness of Insurgency comes off in the wrong way. Although, perhaps you can now see how I feel about it.