Goober here, the game is brainless.

They opened Pandora's box with the power creep and there is no going back. Not to say that the game used to be hard or anything, but they drastically scaled up player power to the point where you can brute force your way through every objective now.

A long time ago frames like Nyx and Vauban were hailed as the best because the meta was purely CC and mob TTK was a lot longer (still short) than it is now. The game is a lot more 'Anime' than it ever used to be and its a pity because there is no tension or real strategy involved. It really zaps the fun out of having unique enemy types.