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>>10819150
>I'm probably missing something
You are and aren't. Quakespasm and other sourceports have limitations that prevent them from running the heavier maps of say Arcane Dimensions, or Ter Shibboleth Drake, or Mjolnir. However I think even Quakespasm was updated to run all AD maps just fine, and Quakespasm-Spiked was also updated very recently and can run all these maps if you manually increase the heapsize. However most modders and mappers are targeting Ironwail because the dev is pretty active and it has a nice mod/maps menu. FTEQW has these things too, but Ironwail is much snappier for me.

Quakespasm-Spiekd and vkQuake boast good multiplayer support, but vkQuake was abandoned and will never be updated again unless someone forks it. The long and the short of it is if you like having a mods menu in your Quake sourceport, then go with Ironwail.