That was kind of my point and last sentence in the first paragraph. Mods aren't meta. Speed is. Without max speed you're nothing. I mean to the person up a couple about gear being fixed it would be cool if you could mix and match certain gear pieces for the slots. Like if the devs set certain parameters on which gear at which level you could slot in an opening and you could pick between 3-5 pieces to fill any given spot and change them as you want, but again I think it would all come back to speed. People would rip and replace gear to maximize speed because that is what controls all aspects of winning right now.