Yes, yes and yes. Game got way worse after adding this unfinished mechanic. Old game loop worked, encouraged players to work together and made sense. Techwebs in the current form is just a waiting game to become stronger. Remember DEFCON encouraged marines to control as much of the colony as possible, so IOs could gather more intel? What's the point of marines ever leaving FOB now? Why don't they just wait for better techs? Holy fuck, you completely broke the game and now stick to obviously bad decisions made by people who gone. I agree that some of the techs and features are still fun and it would be nice to keep them, but I think we can all agree that the game got undeniably worse over the last year. You can argue about MOBA, many people liked it. You can argue about permanests. But is there really anyone who thinks techwebs made the game better?
And yeah, I haven't even spoken about balance yet. Techwebs bad for the game as for RP game. And balance-wise techwebs are just broken. For both sides. And no one has a vision how to improve techwebs, how to make it fit the game. So why are we still here?