I understand where you are going with this topic and I understand your concern. For your first problem having around 40 plugins for a server seems like a lot to me. I would recommend removing some of them to reduce your lag and tps issues. Also, people might be getting kicked because they are not using 1.14.3. For your second issue about Trent is over the years there have been a lot of attacks on SLG's servers and Trent is trying to make sure that an issue like that doesn't happen again. Before the other attack brought Minehut down for around 2 weeks with most server data being lost and a lot of passwords being leaked. So like I said before Trent doesn't want that to happen again.