This is one thing that many people seem to not understand with this one exploit that was recently fixed but now is brought up because people are now complaining about how low the xp is for the practice training which i think is fine and normal because the original xp was crazy high but who knows they might rework things as updates pass.
This post is just a understanding for those who cant understand what exploiting really is especially when an in-game activity is completed the RIGHT way, with no exploits/bugs being abused.
Completing an in-game activity isnt exploiting, but failing the activity repeatedly just to infinitely gain xp by failing the activity is considered exploiting, the activity was bugged where you can infinitely fail it while making xp, and ubisoft making the xp too high for the target practice was a mistake by the devs and was nerfed down but never is/or was an exploit because no bug was used to complete the task just simply shoot the targets and get ur overloaded rewards.
EK1 has difficulties understanding this even having a dev explain to him on twitter exactly what the exploit was. I do agree with the people using any type of glitch should be punished but if the devs made a mistake like ex. the xp being too high for target practice when completed, the devs cant really do much since you arent breaking COC(Code of Conduct) all your doing is completing the activity as shown to do, otherwise if you agree with ek1 argument pretty much your saying that if u farmed the target practice to gain SHD levels, you should be banned/rolled-back because you technically "Abused the game mechanics" even though the target practice xp was set high without the devs realizing at the time, so thats why ubisoft isnt banning those people that did the target practice fair and square, but now the target practice is nerfed and now people are trying to say it was an exploit because of the amount of xp it gave, first off you cant just say its an exploit because it use to have so much exp that u gained from it, its nerf now and people are *****ing about it because the amounts of xp you use to gain is now gone and people cant farm the target practice like last patch and the people that were able to farm the exp didnt get ban which was reasonable because none of us exploited it and there was no need to, so if you cant accept the fact that the practice shooting activity wasnt an exploit to gain xp 'besides the fact failing it repeatedly to exploit more gain of xp', than theres nothing the devs or anyone can do for you at this point sadly..