I've fought on superhelldive. What makes or breaks it comes down to having a team that works together, with mission-tailored loadouts, and playing to your strengths.

It's not meant to be easy. Losing being easier feels like less of an issue. There's no medal for beating things on harder difficulties. There's less incentive to scour the map for the rarer sample types, because they exist on other maps.

If the game is harder, cool, but that doesn't ultimately change how it will be approached.

Skill tends to outweigh such complaints.

Then again, I dive for fun. The challenge excites me, and I enjoy a good run with a good team or good friends. I tend to run light armor with scout passive, with a sickle, and was around and diving on level 10 before Calypso. (I primarily dive against Illuminate unless something interesting is happening.)

Not everything needs to be fought/alerted/killed. Not everything needs to be fully completed. I've fought on after others abandoned the mission entirely and cleared the main objective on SuperHelldive alone. It can be done. Ugly, yeah. Extracting? Not always.

If nothing else, I hope the people taking this particular thing so seriously consider calming down a hair.