Precisely. I think most people agree a proper FT tutorial and a damage reduction is the best course of action for balance.
I mean balancing randoms…potato is gonna potato, you can’t balance that. You can limit it with training though. Same goes the other way, a well coordinated, experienced FT is gonna make you sweat and get white knuckled even using actual nerf weapons.
It’s tricky and I give the devs all the credit in the world trying to find balance in this but there’s always something going to blow up the average numbers.