Personally I’d much rather the new gear was undertuned rather than over. Feels like most times games get new classes, weapons, abilities etc. it always starts out as OP.
Could be many reasons for that ofc: To gather interest & attention, to lower the entry barrier & balance the difference experience makes etc. And sometimes just as a scummy practice of forcing ppl to buy DLC’s etc. just to not fall behind, only to nerf it all later after enough sales. All under the pretense of an accident, then selling the nerf off as some selfless & noble act of listening to community feedback, instead of the scam and abuse of trust that it really was.
Either way, people are gonna play around with the new stuff anyway. Most people are going to be running around with the same new thing, making every build & every match the same. It’s fun for a few matches but gets old real fast. There’s no need to make that issue even worse than it has to be.