Are you serious?
The horse has bolted; you cannot expect people to go in with basic weapons and get annihilated when those same people have gorged themselves and abused the system already?
And let's not forget the cheating and hacks that are and will always happen, they are a cat and mouse chase as they try and work each other out.
It is neither fun or exciting to see a newish player get smashed as they work out and up the skills tree, that is what hurt WOW and it has never really recovered from all elite rubbish they still go through to this day and the prime reason I stopped 10+ years ago.
Not everyone can spend 20+ hours a week on the game or take time off for 2 weeks in a drug fueled binge on the game or want too for that matter to max everything out.
If you want that system, you need to start everyone back to zero and then separate the skills and points.