Nice_Boat, we both know you can never have enough alts(the more the better, it only further increases the gap between those who spend more time on this game), i do agree that the endgame is reachable much more faster than in other games when it comes to leveling characters, but the logistics behind them, ugh ... that is worth to talk about. Example, i liked when armors didn't get useless after fixing them 2 times, after that usually it is another repairing material, but then again Solar was talking about armors not dropping resistances till 50% deterioration witch would be pretty fine on current system. Nobody will work on that except Solar, who knows when he gets back.
There was this domination mode mentioned somewhere by the developers(Solar?), well just some dream currently as it seems. Same principle applies what you are pointing out, somewhat balanced in terms of players from both sides, own gear, well objectives speak for themselves since it is domination.
Bottom line, there is nobody motivated enough to do this from 2238 team, roughly quoting one of the developers, "it takes shitload of organization, stop."