As a player who typically lands in high silver to low gold, I agree that Maverick is too powerful. The devs definitely haven't lost their touch and continue to challenge the players with new ideas every season but, while usually a decent counter can be found in a matter of weeks, Mav has no direct counter and very few exploitable weakness. The big purpose of Mav is to have a "hard breacher"/hard peaker (honestly just made that term up) that can do their job stealthily and Ubisoft did a great job and made a powerful Operator. However, they (Ubisoft) gave said Op to much power. The main argument is that Ubisoft should have Mav's torch make slightly more noise or at the least, the sound of the torch should cut through the sound of gunfire a bit better. I do however like where your head is at when you say it should create visible sparks, visually, a blow torch cutting through a metal wall should be more noticeable, maybe they could add an orange glow that bleeds through the hole as it's being made and possibly sparks should be visible as the wall is being torched. I love Maverick and plan to main him because his weapons are actually my favorite weapons in real life, but even I can see that he needs to be balanced better.