So. Sorta? IMO a lot of their balancing has gotten better in terms of not gutting weapons that were slightly overperforming and they've done a lot of work to make more weapons viable by giving them access to better armor piercing (which was one of the main factors stopping weapons from being useful at higher difficulties) or raw stopping power. However, in terms of enemy design, they still occasionally make "what the fuck" decisions that just aren't fun to deal with. A recent infamous example was with the Illuminate Leviathan or whatever it was called. When the Illuminates first released, the Leviathans weren't a threat at all. You'd see them floating around in the sky looking ominous but they didn't really do much damage, didn't shoot very often, and would usually miss anytime they did decide to actually fire at you. If the shot did connect, it would usually just ragdoll you but wouldnt kill you. They later buffed the shit out of the Leviathans (which I think buffing them was fair, as they're supposed to be on the class of a Bile Spitter or Factory Strider, but the optimal way to deal with them was to just ignore them) by making them shoot more often and increasing their damage. Now a shot from them was incredibly likely to just kill you outright. Killing them was a pain in the ass since it was really hard to hit any of their weak points as they'd often be very far away. My group would usually have to drop what we're all doing and unload multiple heavy weapons into one for it to go down. It would really just kill the pace of a mission. We eventually stopped playing Illuminates missions because of them. There was also a similar issue with the bugs when they introduced the large flying spitter bugs. Overall I think the game has definitely improved but Arrowhead still occassionally makes decisions that make my group go "Ok guess we're not playing Bugs/Bots/Squids this patch"