If Clan Reinforcements had majored on improving the underperforming Clan mech chassis rather than boosting the already powerful top 3-4 Clan mech chassis, there wouldn't be such a groundswell of "Clans are OP".

But when they make the SCR, TBR, WHK and DWF even better than they were already, and a couple of those were basically the only mechs seen in CW anyway, it just made things worse.

On top of that, IS Quirks Pass Two nerfing the 9S, 6K, and other popular IS builds, was the salt in the wound for IS players.

And so here we are, with the best Clan mechs likely to get nerfed because of that chain of events, likely leaving the Clans with a full set of mediocre mechs before the dust settles

So if we look at back at what's happened, we see a series of mistakes by PGI:

• Certain already-powerful Clan mechs are made even more powerful via new pay-only variants
• Certain key IS mechs were nerfed in Quirk Pass Two
• The rest of the Clan mechs mostly suck and Reinforcements don't really help them much
• If PGI nerfs the best Clan mechs, they will be nerfing the mechs people who pay the most have put the most real-world money into, which is a dangerous move for customer relations and future sales, and-- (next bullet)
• Instead of 2-3 amazing mechs and a bunch of crappy ones, the Clans will be left with no outstanding mechs and even more crappy ones. And if any balancing is done by nerfing global Clan weapon stats, the sub-par Clan mechs will be that much worse off

Instead, if Clan Reinforcements variants had been done properly, the outcome could have been:

• Sub-par Clan chassis are improved by new variant omnipods
• Top of the line Clan chassis are not significantly impacted; given middling new variants
• Top IS mechs are not neutered by Quirks Pass
• Everything remains is relatively balanced and stable

Truly, before Quirks Pass Two and the Clan Reinforcements variants, we had a pretty decent balance between Clan and IS. Both of those things upset that balance.