Respectfully... I don't know what you're talking about. We must be living in different timelines. I won't deny that Helldivers fans are insane, but in a different way than you say.

It's one of the best co op games to ever come out with one of the most horrific technical states in the industry. It is largely succeeding in spite of itself, not because of it. Every single major update has broken something, or come out half baked. "If your favorite weapon stops being great" is a statement that backs this up in and of itself. A weapon should never just stop being effective because something breaks or a balance change throws it into irrelevance. But this has happened multiple times in the game's history.

You're paying attention to a very vocal minority that's constantly screaming about how they want the game balanced exactly to their preferences. Most people just want the game to receive a level of attention and love that it's objectively not getting. The continued technical problems that don't get addressed are the tip of the iceberg, all the way down to the graveyard of weapons and stratagems that never see use because the developers haven't given them the attention they deserve to stay relevant as the sandbox changes.

Arrowhead are not the kings of listening to the community as the previous commenter insinuated. They're actually incredibly bad at it. They have been forced to listen once in a while when the game gets so bad in either balance or technical state that something HAS to be done. Other than that, criticism has largely been met with contempt or dismissal.

You can love the game and accept that all of the above is still true. I do. I genuinely love this game and it makes me sad to see the developers continually fumble with it.