It likely didn’t have all those ornamented gold weapon variants either...
I’d be happy for the progression in BF1 to be shorter or slower because it has fewer items. But that buy-your-stuff system where you grind for the currency and then have to read up to not make a horrible mistake and buy the wrong thing, I’m not a fan of.
I never thought of any combinations as OP in the older games either tbh
Simplified weapons mechanics puts more emphasis on the combat rather than OP attachment combinations.