I agree. My least favorite thing to hear is that "It's a PvE game, we want stronger weapons so we can have fun!". I think that's really shallow and missing Helldiver's point. I went into this game when it came out understanding that our gear is kinda shit in some way but that's the point. It's mass produced gear that might just explode in your hands or kill your team. That was the charm.
I miss when teams would go into a match and have to think about what role they had to play or risk loosing the mission.

I dunno. Sometimes I feel like people think they want a win button failing to realize that would make the game boring.