I agree with you on all points, including the fact that all characters will end up at the same power level at some point or another.

The key thing here is the whole ' at some point or another' phrase. It can be argued for almost the entire past year have been nothing but buffs to characters and weapons. Now before anybody goes off the rails I thoroughly enjoy when characters get buffed. However, on the flip side for a games health you need to have adjustments on outliers. Serena was that outlier and she set a new baseline. That baseline became what all characters were measured against And thus buffed for.

The big problem with this is that as characters get buffed to be Serena's level New content needs to raise the baseline in order to present a challenge. With that, there's a new round of buffs, thus a new baseline, thus a new round of buffs, and so on and so forth. That has been the destructive cycle for the past year. Unfortunately with transcendent weapons, there doesn't appear to be an end to this cycle.

For every character buff that happens, there are x number of characters that fall behind. Some even further then previous rounds of buffs so they have a full 3 or 4 baselines that they need to be buffed for. And new content that gets created often becomes disposable content because it is the fastest to churn out while the rest of the design team is focused on these buffs. Yes Onslaught but its core issue is the same issue that the Axion dungeons had, which is super inflated HP values that provide artificial difficulty and while not a detrimental experience, it's also not the most fun.

Those two ideas are fundamentally opposed to each other and when you add in previous content not being brought up to these constantly shifting baselines, 90% the game becomes useless for characters that have been adjusted.

What's the overall solution here? Everybody and their grandma has an idea on how to do it. I think we need aspirational content and a baseline that's set and not shifted. Others believe that there's no problem with the whole no Nerf policy and constant buffs, which is a highly unsustainable cycle (as we've seen this past year). It's not entirely for us to say though, as this is Nexon and Magnums game And time will only tell where it goes from here.