Should I get negotiator to 7* or get malevolence to 5* first

Male is so trash now that I want to scream. Used to auto Negotiators on arena before Executor came in, now it hardly has one half dead ship remaining after Nego’s ult, and “the tank” hardly survives two and a half hits from Anakin which wasn’t the case for years before. They either ninja nerfed it or idk what happened. And my geos are all r7 btw with top mods etc.
TL;DR go for Negotiator first, he’s outperforming Male on every single aspect atm.