I think that's definitely true given that ZZZ has only started to do crazy powercreep in its last few patches. And Genshin's creep was mostly limited to supports, keeping old DPSes viable, until the past year or so too. Plus as action games there's just a higher skill ceiling to make up the difference.
As far as AS goes it was always pretty creep-prone and matchup dependent in my experience. Since I skipped Break teams I had a miserable time with it until I started picking up 3.x DPS. I've been pretty lucky in that I was able to fill out Phainon and Castorice teams, plus my main 1.x team (dot) got buffed to the moon. 3500 with sustainless dot on side 2 which is not something I thought would be possible
I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig!
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