Struggling a little recently as a casual player

I play a couple hours here and there, usually as a solo player, but now I’m hitting a bit of a soft wall. When the game launched I was having a lot of fun, the ground battles were fair, money wasn’t an issue, I was trying different things and enjoying the team play.

The last couple sessions were a little demoralizing. It’s pretty obvious my progression has fallen behind, because I’m getting melted in ground battles, which feels twice as bad because due to dying more I now have no money. Buying a kit isn’t cheap, and as a casual player it gets progressively worse when you lose it. I try to switch it up and make money by running supplies, base building a little, etc, but it takes no time at all to burn through that money getting melted by people who clearly pump way more hours into the game than I do.

Any other casuals feeling a little pushed out? I know it’s only early in the games life, and likely changes will be made to fix this, but it took such a small amount of time for this divide to happen to me personally, that it feels a little alarming for the longevity of the game imo.