That's a very shallow interpretation of what's going on here. You seem to have this preconception that just because we've been around longer that we want to do everything in our power to sabotage the playerbase.

You completely misconstrue the point here. OF COURSE we would use these things. How else do you compete with other players who abuse broken mechanics? Is there some sort of moral code we have to abide where we all agree not to use them? The fact that so many top tier players use these things is because they're clearly broken, and in such a scenario the only way to stay competitive is to fight fire with fire.

Every single broken FotM piece of crap has been called out by vet players because it ruins gameplay when a certain mechanic becomes so saturated that you have to resort to a "if you can't beat em, join em" mentality. I'm talking about Duvolle TAC, Cal Logi, Fused Locus Grenades, Flaylocks, Mass Drivers, Active Scanners, Forge Guns, Tanks, Cloaks, Scouts, Rail + Combat Rifles, and I'm sure a few others. All of these have at some point been OP and called out by players like us who abused the hell out of them to make it apparent just how stupid they were.

For example, my Forge thread from forever ago where I demonstrated me going 60-0 two games in a row with an Assault Forge Gun by just sitting on top of a tower and blapping people. I asked them to nerf the splash on it because of how easy it was to two-shot people with just splash damage. It ended up being like 15+ pages and was subsequently nerfed in the next patch. A lot of players were saying I was an extreme case and that I cheated or abused the weapon and that it shouldn't be nerfed and blah blah, but there were plenty others like me who were abusing the exact same thing but just not wanting to be open about it.

Point is you gotta show the ridiculousness of certain mechanics if you want them to get fixed. It makes everyone better players and for a better game by not having very apparent crutches readily available in the game.