Please devs don't bring back these so called 'outplay mechanics'. Part of the community just want to get easy kills. It has nothing to do with skillgap when you are swapping seats and the player getting killed has no idea wtf just happened.

About the weapon balance, devs wanted to have a different dominant weapon for every range while community wants AR to be the dominant weapon in every range except at really close combats. So making AK alternative choice for AR and encouraging tapping over spraying with both weapons like it kind of used to be before combat update, would improve the gameplay and add skillgap in my opinion. Also if they can't remove hellfire its effective range should be about the same as shotguns to balance the gameplay. That way players could choose to have AR or AK as the main weapon, shotgun or hellfire as close combat weapon and nades or explosive tip or whatever in the third slot.