If that’s the route they take, the mode can kindly die so we can get a Chaos Wastes equivalent instead.
I’m pretty much already mentally checked out of it with the garbage weekly rank decay system and whatnot, if they rely on trying to achieve balance with the stacking negative modifiers (which is also a system I despise) then it’s likely just going to result in making meta even more important by damaging any off meta build. EG: In that crit example that just forces you into the crit heavy weapons even harder if you’re running a crit zealot or what have you. Or just ruins the build’s viability in general.
To be blunt, I do not trust them to handle balancing 40 levels of negative modifiers well at all when the game’s balance is already screwy and has been for a long time.