there's got to be some kinda solution to fix this, right?

First off, good lord, punctuation please.

Secondly, it's not the case that defender always gets stealth. The ability says when an enemy stealths you steal it. Therefore, the chain is: you trigger the enemies stealth and steal it, the enemy Punishing One steals it back. The limit is clearly once a trigger to prevent an infinite loop.

They have already said a Dagger buff is incoming to make Leviathan the rightful top dog again.

Using Ebon Hawk lowers the synergy. Read the PO's kit. It says all allied ships need to be Bounty Hunters excluding the Capital.

And your point about low star to high star being more difficult in matchups is a positive not a negative. Higher investment should yield a reward. You should not nerf PO to benefit lower star Executors. You sound like you just need to invest in the fleet more and learn the matchups.

If you want roster help on how to do that, then you need to provide an ally code so people can research your relic levels, zetas, and mods. R5 6 Star Executor should almost never beat R9 7 Star Executor.

well let's see...higher star execs were consistently beatable before this came out...piett has to be r8 to even get it...and i still get the bonus protection each time from p1's unique because only the active allies have to be BH at the start of battle, because the ability does not say "including reinforcements"...anything else?

And now they don't. That's called a Meta shift. There are also 6 other ships where relics, gear, zetas, and mods are relevant. But feel free to take offense to critique.

There's nothing to fix. It's been investigated and the solution has been provided.

Tie Dagger is getting a buff. Everything else is fine.

Adjust your strategy. Work on the pilots. Get 7 stars. There's three things that can help your gameplay issue.

No they need to fix the issues with the p1... There is plenty of them...Lets see...

Stealth steal... It shouldnt be able to steal it back regardless... And the very few times i do steal it and keep it which is extremely rare not only is my p1 under stealth but so is my xb... Mirror match exe p1 xb rc

When reinforcing with p1 it does not lower the cooldown of wanted dead... When an enemy attacks out of turn... 

They are investigating the speed to exe bug alrdy... And apparently its not lowering enemy tie ships stats either... And I havent seen a slow down of the enemy ships either... So technically the jumpmaster5000 skill in a whole is bugged every which way it can be pretty much... 

But the biggest issue is cg inability to properly test/manage their game.... Just keeps releasing broken characters....