Quoted from CrazyLevi:

I’ve noticed the word “gatekeepers” a lot around here lately.
Is it edging out “woke” for Pinside word of the month?
Did Watters World just do a segment on “gatekeepers” or something? What gives?
I’m gonna have to invoke a previous Pinside word of the month: snowflake.
Tournament pinball is high stakes, high pressure athletic competition. It’s not for everybody. You must be mentally fit as well as in top physical condition.
If you can’t handle the fact that you’ll run into players who are better than you, and posses better skills, you really shouldn’t bother. Nobody is going to give you any handicaps. Nobody is going to let you win. Nobody is going to alter a machine to give scrubs a better chance of lucking into a victory.
It’s for fierce competitors. Not snowflakes.