I put the way i see it here
But ill write stuff here too.
The game shouldnt be balanced around 1 rank, or even 2 ranks. And its not, it never has been and it never will, the dev team is working overtime with horrible pay to try to bring the experience together for EVERYONE, theres so many decisions theyve made that is so far from the top 1% that people ignore when talking about balance.
The game is balanced more around the top sure, but its not balanced only around the top, but i reckon that the amount that t500, owl, and gm has to do with balance is around as much as the rest combined, which is a lot more per person, but overall not that much more.