Your idea of hampering our progress through low drops and RNG is a bad one, FatShark. Change it or even fans like me (nearing 4k hours in VT2, nearing 300 hours in here already) will eventually quit the game. Clawing my way to good gear is simply too frustrating.
One of the ways you could fix the low materials (plasteel, to be precise) issue is to let us buy it with debbets. As it is, debbets are semi-useless, let them be useful again.