The Portal XP Nerf and the Betrayal of "Full Progression" - Targeted Solutions

This game locks the vast majority of its best and/or most versatile guns and attachments behind playing the game for many hours. No, they should not leave a shortcut to that system in the game. The list of problems is nearly endless... but I'll pick my top few.

1. It makes players that don't want to waste hours of their lives on killing bots feel stupid or like they aren't playing correctly.
   • It's like saying that pay to win mechanics are good in video games. Sure, you can earn the 5 dollar item by playing 50 hours of game time... but by hour 10, it feels like you're working for 0.10 cents an hour.
2. It ruins the design of class progression. They clearly designed the game to feel like you're becoming slightly more powerful overtime...
   • Imagine an arpg where you progress your character by actively auto-attacking a target dummy for 10 hours before playing the game.
3. It encourages players (especially ones new to the franchise) to develop terrible habits before playing against other players. (e.g. teaches healers to play entirely selfishly).
4. This game should have a long grind.
   • There are no yearly releases.
   • A huge quantity of players largely quit when they hit the end of the progression ladder.
   • There should be an adjustment to a number of the challenges... they seemingly designed challenges to be time consuming and difficult rather than to improve gameplay. (e.g. suppression for LMG should not be a challenge... shooting to miss most of your shots should not be a goal; additionally, encouraging head shot kills rather than number of head shots encourages poor aiming/ROF habits with semi-auto guns; shots over 200m is almost impossible to achieve given the small size of this game's maps and even then, that's not what DMRs are for).