Anyone else feel like the game was SIGNIFICANTLY better when everyone was running around in lvl 2 armor?

Jesus this was absolutely peak Wardogs for me. It was so much fun and honestly really balanced from an infantry perspective. Lvl 2 armor didn't feel OP, it was more of a countermeasure against snipers if anything.

But now that almost everyone is using lvl 3, and some specimens somehow already have lvl 4 unlocked, the game really feels like a crapshoot. Half the roster of guns just aren't viable anymore and I'm stuck using one of the assault rifles.

I don't want to grind to unlock AP rounds so I can have a chance in a direct 1v1. Leg meta is a crock of shit that simultaneously isn't fun nor even viable in a lot of cases. This means I either only enjoy the first week of wipe or waste my time pretending to have fun to unlock the bullets that restrict me to one caliber/weapon for the rest of the time until I unlock another AP round.