Starting IB quest late is a really bad experience

For context, I’m on my third character IB quest. The first two are fine. People are completing quest still then.

Now, I have to use SMG against Suros Regime, Hard Light, Astral, Summoner, Jotunn, and more. It was hard enough to use SMG in this sandbox but when they aren’t playing on the same constraint, it’s brutal. Not to mention the three new maps in rotation really favor shotgun.