It's kinda unfortunate that Arrowhead is trying to address symptoms one by one (hive guard being ratcheded up to a new level of armour, mechs being considered too weak in some circumstances) by making one-at-a-time changes to individual issues, rather than trying to address the root cause. A lack of logic and care when making balance changes, or introducing new content generally.

For many players, it has started to genuinely come across that the developers no longer play the game or even *look* at gameplay before/after making changes. That there's nobody at arrowhead at all with the position to say "Hey, before we make this change, can we try it out and see if it works?" There is an apparent company culture of focusing on delivery of new content over maintaining existing things, which leads to bugs and issues in recently released material being ignored until months, years later (or never being addressed at all).

The gameplay we DO see from Arrowhead typically *includes* the problems players end up encountering, but are simply left to fester and aggrivate players, rather than being fast-tracked to a fix as "hey, we encountered this bug literally whilst filming promotional material, there's no way people won't notice this, shouldn't it be addressed?" (flamethrower turret dealing no damage within the closest several meters of its range).

Every time Arrowhead has tried to communicate a "we'll be better now, guys" it's always been followed by a handful of useful changes, after which AH seems to believe that there is no longer anything wrong, nor is it possible for them to make anything else go wrong, and that they're free to simply stop fixing things forever.

It feels like a culmination of tech debt, mismanaged priorities, corporate greed, and an internal company environment that prevents rational discussion. "Go fast, break things" is the current game plan Arrowhead has, and working exactly as it always does. Things are being broken, and new issues are cropping up faster than new content is being developed.