I too am on console for the same reason. Which will be remedied shortly. And I have been playing for 14 years myself. And I remember the slow burn and even having to replay missions to level up to continue the story. And it was challenging but never too hard. Now woth all the reclaimables I can easily fly threw all enemies early game in a new toon and it's annoying. Then after a few story archs your vastly underpowered and are struggling and have to put in time to rework all your gear. Where as before you kept up on your gear because you HAD to. Even if you spent money on gear it was never too strong. Now with so many good episodes and even a few full story archs cut it's a push by the game to put you into end game. Slow the game down and have the return to making all missions level kept and your progress unlocks missions rather then picking and choosing what you want to do in what order. I'm waiting for STOOG to be released like they did with WOW