I've felt this way since power advantages were returned in Forsaken, but the deeper we've gone into season 8, the worse this has become in my opinion. As much as I didn't like it last year, at least we could hit the power cap and not be at a disadvantage based on level anymore. That's no longer the case and as we've gotten further into this season, the power disadvantages have gotten worse. Players who have been able to level into the 970's- 980's have a significant advantage over everyone and it really makes for low quality games when we get those lobbies. Iron Banner has enough to make it unique with the aesthetic and lockout mechanic. It doesn't need a cheap power advantage that also negates the rest of the matchmaking criteria. Edit: it's interesting that so many people in this forum community are so into wanting weapons nerfed because they're "unfair" and "unbalanced", but are totally cool with unbalanced matchmaking that lets players get farmed and with level advantages that make weapons and abilities more unbalanced than anything in the sandbox at level. It's almost like it's all about kd farmers wanting to protect stats... Also, I want to hear everyone defending this saying it's "endgame" so power needs to matter, also say that if Trials returns, that they're okay with power mattering there with unlimited levels because of the artifact as well.