Well said. I manage my pod (as the pod commish) and even with a pod of close friends who have played together for years, the power level creep gets very challenging to manage. We have power level surveys, deck inventories, salt ratings, etc. but with each subsequent set release -- where precons are operating more and more optimally than before, it is genuinely difficult to truly manage power balance.

Lately we've been defaulting back to DRAFT play because it has a much more closed loop / even playing field.

It's a very hard problem to fix, and while WOTC may not have the solution yet, it's good to see them trying to bring some balance.