If I adopt the same method as you guys : I landed in Wetlands a few times yesterday and 2x I landed on purple armor and on the same roof or in the building underneath my feet was a weapon and extended mag. The rest of the time I landed and still found armor and guns but wasn't fully stacked.
Going by your logic - I would have to sit here and argue that we need less loot. Going by my logic I'd say : I had good drops. When I had poor drops I was lucky because the closest team were at the other cluster of buildings in wetlands and we had time to decide whether to ditch or fight. The former is luck and the latter is choice, the secret ingredient after that is skill level and it's variable. If I relied entirely on luck (like people who drop into skulltown every single game) and my skill to make up the difference : I'd be screwed in far more games than I am.
Everyone has good and bad drops, but if you're consistently finding you've not got what you need for a fight : the fight has happened too quick for your skill level and/or you've been unlucky in my opinion. At 500 hours it's probably the latter : but the price we pay for any variety in the loot is the chance that RNG will smile as we get pasted by someone fully stacked while we're still trying to equip the 2-4x scope onto our shield battery to macgyver a bomb.
Someone like Shroud will complain because he has a business where people tune in to see him pwn. He has customers who require an explanation when he drops and dies, and his expectation is determined by knowing that in 99.99999999999999999% of the fights he's involved in : if skill was all that matters, he should have won. The best game for someone like shroud is where 2 red spheres shoot laserbeams at each other which kill with 1 shot and are hitscan as it would be nothing but skill.
Are you really in the same boat? :P I'm not.
P.S - more than 1000 hours here last time you quoted 500 hours, I don't know what I'm at now. I can tell you're not new to the game or to gaming, everyone else can. An argument from authority doesn't work though.