Is it time for a game-wide damage reduction, or another protection-style update?

A simple solution would be to make all toons have a fully geared/full level un-moded speed of 150 minimum. This would open up a lot of other toons to be useful with mods against the F1 race cars everyone is using today. The problem is not damage so much as it is all the toons with counters are stuck in the slow lane. On the other hand, the devs seem to be adding more and more uncounterable effects to the game.... bad design IMO. First rule of competative games is that every move has a counter, they are violating the **** out of that rule.