yes, there are a good amount of people that think a random trail underneath their feet would be cool. So what, that proves us nothing. There has been plenty of "hype" for hundreds of additions that get denied, dont act like this is any different. Lets actually look at what it would entail rather than thinking "cool trail i want it."
1. There are already trails associated with some of the obtainable artifacts. While adding a few more artifacts that do this would be possible, adding a whole vending machine of trails would end up creating everybody on the server to be using one.
2. Putting behind a paywall would be the same idea as blood on MRP, while it was cool at first, there was problems with it involving the mechblood that made it hard to see the person you were shooting at. Trust me, you dont want even 20+ people running around with these trails on the server, it would cause a hassle and get annoying very fast. But you have to keep in mind that this is intended to be a Vanilla DRP server. I feel as this would take away from that feel if a bunch of people are running around with pink trails following them.
3. Adding it to prestige would be the only reasonable idea here, and even then the amount of prestiged players is small enough that it wouldn't even be worth the time to add this in when there could be other additions put in place instead.
4. The lag is something that would need to be tested. Not even going to bring that up as it isnt something measurable until it would be implemented.
TLDR: There are other additions that would be much better in place of this, however adding it in as a prestige reward would be the most viable option.
If garnet or proggy have any input on this, please do so as this gunna end up like my third person revamp suggestion years back real fast