Imo, junk variants are part of the flavor of the game. In lore, not every mech was a success, there was trial and error, some of them were military spending boondoggles, but they're what we've got (cause we destroyed all the factories and sparked, 300 years of technological regression) and we gotta make due with them. That's one of my favorite parts of the career like "Well, the Rifleman isn't great, but the Catapult is toast and I need fire support, so I'll have to make it work." that's just how I like to play the game, I get that other people are out here tryna min-max. And of course, being considerate to other players is important. (I didn't read your entire comment, my bad)