What I hate most is that I rarely get my dropship destroyed directly from enemy fire. 87% of the time it's because the railgun, FG, Swarms, push me all the way into oblivion and push me off into an obstruction.
That's what pisses me off the most.

Then you are bad at forge gun.

3 shots from an 9K330 will take out any dropship in the game, most in 2, and OHKs all infantry. The 9K330 does more splash damage than a direct hit from an EXO mass driver, with basically the same radius, and TWICE the splash damage.

The 9K330 splash radius is 0.3 meters smaller than the EXO (realistically, they are for most intents and purposes the same), and it's splash damage does just under twice the damage of the EXO's splash. And to reiterate, the splash on the 9k330 does as much damage as the direct damage of the EXO. A direct hit with the 9K330 is an OHK on every dropsuit in the game.

I assure you, I've fit every combination possible with DSs, and YES we basically all use the same fits because our PG has been nerfed so far that there are only 2 or 3 viable options for each model that a competent pilot would ever actually fly. The most tanked out dropship cannot survive 3 shots from a 9K330 without, at best, being DEEP into burning damage. You have to understand, that USUALLY you don't get the notification of a kill, because when burning damage takes us out we either get charged with a team kill or a suicide. You see the guy fly away after that 3rd shot, and if you don't pay attention to their escape, you'll likely never know that they crashed and burned trying to pull off a hot landing with a rep tool.

Coming from both sides of the argument having both a character that runs vehicles including DS and a character that is heavily speced into FG AV I know how this feels from both sides.

On one hand we have the DS that is supposed to be used by a team tactically which does not seem to be anywhere in the game right now other than bringing people to rooftops or allowing for MCRU on the new domination maps. As a pilot it sucks to be shot down, It feels bad to lose something you worked so hard to get just to be shot down by militia gear, and that is one thing I cannot stand is being shot by militia gear that takes no skill what so ever to use. However credit is due when i get hit by proto swarms or a proto forge gun because they are spending those SP to take me down its part of their job and I understand it. However we should get countermeasures to these things like warning sounds when a forge gun locks onto us or flares to negate 1 shot of swarms every 30 seconds. Just something to help us actually be of some use.

Looking at it from the AV side I've spent about 6m SP purely into getting forge gun skills up. So yes when I pull out my proto breach FG and I one shot your DS because it only has 2000 HP I do feel bad because it was so easy but it also is partly your fault, as a DS pilot if I am hit by a FG or I see a blue explosion near me ill run away and know where to stay away from. Too many pilots come straight at me like I'm not going to shoot them again. As AV I have no other job than to take down vehicles so yes when you being them out I will make it my job to shoot you down.

Looking at it objectively AV does not need a nerf it needs a different scaling system militia swarms do the same amount of damage as prototypes so those should be reduced and DS health should also be buffed slightly so that its not as easy to take one down. However if you are flying shield or use any type of shield vehicle they are broken and I would recommend switching to armor, who cares if they are slower it's barely noticeable now and I rarely lose my DS anymore after making the switch hardeners save my life 9 times out of 10.

I realize this I was more thinking of swarms when I was writing this and put down the FG but there should be some warning system for FG,or at least make it so the mods have a faster rep time, why should FG be able to already have their second charge ready by the time I have activated my repper and am waiting for it to turn on. If their skill works on reaction time why shouldn't ours, as a forge gunner I can be using an assault FG on top of a building and wipe a DS before it even knew it had been hit.