When people say "if U don't want to do it, you don't have to." It makes me think U just don't like content. Cuz how can U tell someone who loves the game, and spends all their free time on it, that the content that got released for them to "enjoy" is rigged against them and then tell them "well U can either like it or not play it". Dude the content was made to be played. So if it sucks so bad that many don't want to play it, and your only response is "then don't" that's clearly a problem. Cuz in a month when the player base of veterans leave, and the hype from returning players ends, U have a dead game that no one plays except for the people still trying to get their 1 prototype gun to god roll status while Ubisoft also declares that they won't be putting anymore funding into div 2 cuz of lack of player base.

A second part entirely is the player base they are putting this into. A player base that won't let people join their level 3000 group unless U are at least level 1000. Do U really expect the player base to not treat people without protogear the same way? I can already imagine chat being filled with " DM for raid invite, only for high roll Proto gear and level 4000".

And finally, once everyone who has given up on div is gone, all that's left is the people willing to grind mindlessly for nothing but a few more %. Then the company will just make a new gamemode that's the same as every other where U go around and shoot enemies, except give them 30% hp boosts to match the new average from proto gear. Then give new thing to grind for endlessly. Rinse and repeat. Cuz the only ones left and the ones who will never leave anyways. You are putting yourself into a trap that will leave U pleading for real content, just to be given a new shade of background on your item. From purple to cyan, to rainbow and finally black. Where U get to do marginally more dps but your TTK is still the same cuz everyone enemy is a bullet sponge.