It was exciting to a point all these numbers that no one ever dreamed of and characters who were out of the meta becoming good... But a lot of it was simply perspective... True Ugnaught could be buffed to crazy levels, but so could everyone else, all in all with but a very few exceptions all characters held thier place... Yes your charters were exceptional vs the people who hadn't caught up in mods yet and even those who had and it was fun to mess with the crazy stats. But it debased the rest of the progression system that we've worked so hard on so far. What does 25 agility mean on a gear price when a mod gives +47% offence by itself, what does 6 vs 7 star mean?
Now those things matter more than ever now that mods increase based on base stats... You actually have to care and invest in the characters you use as opposed to slapping mods on them and calling them viable. This is where mods should have been from the start but once you've seen these rediculous stats you feel like they've been taken away from you, but even still 5s used to have 50k hp and protection combined, now mine has 55k protection alone. I'm not saying it's perfect but it's closer to what it should have been than before.
Again I think if the mods stayed where they were for longer the meta would have remained exactly where it was before, your hyper modded CUP would have fallen back down to your never used stack as Rey went farther and farther up the popularity charts. It's all relative and now the stats are relative to the gear that you've already invested in.
