I signed up to say that their new Mission Board made the issue worse. You now get quickplayed into easy story missions when you play Aurics, and the changes to how difficulty works are pointless: apparently the New Damnation is just Old Heresy - they just moved everything down by 1 to make space for Auric as a difficulty, that’s why Sedition is gone now.
The Many More Try mod used to be viable for circumventing bad mission board RNG, it was possible to just pick an older mission of the type you wanted via that. The pool for this mod is smaller now due to the new system. Grinding up to Aurics also was horrible, it takes way more games than hitting level 30 did before.
For me it was unfortunately an objective downgrade in every way and I’m not a fan of the visuals either, but that’s fully subjective.