I will say that jumping Destro for a few minutes to find and inspect the characters that can two-second kill me is a rewarding experience. Instead of getting frustrated at the class, or my seeming inability to grasp the playstyle, it turns out that I was getting ganked mostly by people in full Sov with endgame weapons. Makes you feel waaay better about yourself that you are just getting flattened by numbers rather than skill.
Of course, I don't know what it spells for longevity when new players spend time grinding a character to 40 and get whacked in two seconds with ability to respond meaningfully, but that's a problem with all pvp games that use a tiered gear system.