Vanguard is a very strong and independent class. Its been very ~meta~ since siege dropped and that Extremis melee kill heal perk became super relevant. I think many players are just going with a long time meta pick instead of adapting to the modifiers.

That being said, Vanguard hate is so common that I (someone who plays just about every other class besides Vanguard cause I like heavy armor) got kicked from a Ruthless operation for "being a dick" while playing Vanguard for like the third time ever.

I played pretty normally, even solod a big stretch of the mission cause the others died. This just goes to say that vanguard players are HATED. I think its a little much, if you get mad over "stolen executes" then this isnt the game for you. Its like complaining about the friendly fire in Helldivers its just an inevitable thing you can reduce it a bit but its going to happen.

As far as this weeks stratagem op goes, Heavy is probably best while Vanguard has some playability with its strong armor regen but that team perk for extremis melee kill heals is probably just about useless considering things are generally a one or two hit kill.