My original post said someone who is just returning after two patches would struggle against someone who has full gear in the current match.
Was the struggle marginally less in the later seasons of legion? Sure. Earlier seasons you still were behind on ilvl which hindered your scaling and being behind on artifact power was a major power loss.
Point being, no, Legion as an overall expansion had several season within its 7 in which returning players still had a lot of catch up work to perform.
I remember it just fine.
Yes, but your implication was I am not seeing the issue because I am not communicating in the same style. What I was implying was, generally speaking, no one in the history of the game should return after a two patch break and expect to succeed right out of the gate in a patch that has been going on for two months. Suppose there are exceptions for carries
Then that isn’t “plenty”.