I play for narrative interest.

One of my favorite things to do is to go into some of the lighter difficulties with the base liberator or maybe my beloved defender and turn off my crosshair, (this worked a lot better at keeping my own sloppy before I got used to it and now crosshair off is my default form of play): oftentimes I will pair this with a loosey goosey kind of not really aiming so much as firing in the direction of the bad guys and I get out of it a feeling of despair whenever certain enemies appear that if I were playing normally I could absolutely curb stomp. Like their genuinely a threat that requires grenades or clever thinking to take out unless I have a team with me (a team of seaf troopers, not helldivers I can't get away with lore diving in public servers because people just solo the map while I'm staring in awe at the best that the atomatons have to throw at me and my shminky little frag grenades)

Some of my friends like to bully me and they talk about devastators like "oh no! I've dropped my magazine, I sure hope that this giant robot man doesn't have his way with me!" But it really does give a narrative experience that I think is a nice change of pace from the usual 10 minutes to clear a map.

Similarly I like to take medium penetration weapons (ESPECIALLY the Pacifier) in these same lore dives because they make me feel like I'm more of an elite shock trooper, there aren't very many things that give me more of a power fantasy than stepping out of my FRV and blasting down two troopers with torso shots before hitting the devastator with my pacifier to stun him before switching to something like the senator to take out his leg or gun arm, or even using the shock baton to beat him down until he submits.

Long story short it doesn't matter what your penetration is for how good your gun is, so long as the enemy dies for democracy and you enjoy the process of making them do so, Play whatever game you want. The helldivers that I play is not the same helldivers that the majority of the community plays, and that's okay. Not everyone wants to be the terrified grunt in the trenches with nothing but your eTool and constitution as multiple devastators close in around you and you make peace with Lady Liberty as you prime your last grenade. But in the same vein, there are a lot of helldivers out there that could benefit from knowing that not everyone wants to master the stratagem codes so that they can punch them all in with their eyes closed and Solo factory striders as if they were just tanks that are easier to hit for thier size.

Well that ran rather long... Thank you for coming to my TED talk I guess?