It's pretty sad how obsessed you are about the difficulty of your PVE content and how outright scared you are that we might actually feel powerful in a looter game with RPG elements. The fact that you really felt a need to nerf scout rifles across the board shows how out of touch with your own player base you are at times. Literally noone asked for that, they were in an acceptable place and not even part of the Meta, PVE or PVP.