I will write exactly what I told Haste earlier today.
I believe that currently the game is easier than it has maybe ever been in terms of getting into pvp and actually achieving something - you no longer have people that can't be deshielded, you no longer have ships with holes in their hitboxes that'll let shots go through. There are no more instakills that Haste, Wesker, Pillow, I or literally anyone good can abuse.
The gap between "aces" and the "bad" players was unsurmountable most of the time. People like Haste just did not get deshielded by 99% of the playerbase.
The true unfortunate matter of the fact for people that aren't good currently: You would be so much worse in the old pvp system. If you think it's hard to kill someone good now, please properly remember how it was.
I hope one day the developer team can somehow host a day / couple days of .85/86 server so people lose the rose tinted glasses of delusion.