Bro, here people cry for stupid explosive weapons nerf or for Path of steel being too hard. Their fan base will never accept changes to make this game (relatively)hard.
WF game was thought to be like hellDiver at the beginning, with limited revives and blah blah blah... They preferred to turn everything into the game of today, probably because it preferred by many, i don't know.
Overall friendly fire with weapons like the Branma or some abilities could be a suicide from the beginning.