I don't think that characters and scenarios are actually really balanced... in another hand, you will have the woke media yelling for Alicia's top, Ginebra/Mikah's ass, Ayanna/Aneska cleavage, etc, etc, etc...

I don't see this necessary... if you see that the match is long and you can't win, you can always surrender, that option is always there... but, if people want to keep playing and playing, and doesn't give a damn about low rewards, let's the guys play the game.
If you want to play fast, just do it with a group of friends, you can easily storm missions with a good squad with people that know what are they doing.
What I'm seeing with things like this, the aleph/ammunition drops... is that the rules are changing every time. You made a game with certain rules and now, when people had played with those rules, you change them with not much sense.
Example, the drops, was necessary? Did you wanted to tackle the issue about a guy with 5 aleph  or with full ammunition killing a mob and getting nothing? Don't change the actual rules, enrich them, make them drop the item when you already are full, not before that.
This is the same, after a couple of refills of lives, you have to wait a very good amount of time until Cortez returns, and any skilled antag will destroy you or the AI will swarm you (and Shae is quite dead if you are fighting Kuzmann). You have to be extremely good to survive, and if you are that good, you deserve the extra refill... now, some people can say that you can easily survive with Ginebra, right, too bad for the antag... well, too bad for the raiders when they shoot down the protector in two seconds and none give a damn about it...

Her rare weapon is good for crowd control, I think that she is more of a support fire raider than an aggro one (I don't know about antag since I don't antag). Her mech can take all the aggro of the mobs and they don't kill it fast if you take advantage of this (killing all the mobs around, or you can go and take on objectives).
Her rare weapon is a little tricky but can do a good amount of damage (you have to shoot, the ball bounce, then shoot at the ball and this one explode, the best option is to shoot at the floor in front of your enemies, then when bounce detonate it in their face), the only thing is that you don't have the missiles with her rare weapon, just a bubble that doesn't much damage.
Is a nice character, but isn't for the front lines.
I like that she isn't an overpowered machine of war.

Can we have a mission about that?
Harec helping Hans in whatever he needs to do.

Make the raiders watch the cutscene is what a true antag do.

Yes, yes, the gold is flowing now!

The new MMR feels so good, so damn good... you did a very good job, guys