Actually I have the impression that Rapid Fire has become pretty strong... I rather see an issue in the lack of other skillbuffs, so trying other builds just doesn't seem to be worth it atm.
And the fact that they don't stop timers when they take down the servers... well, absolutely right, that's just retarded and should have been fixed, never have been that way

Now, having read at least a huge part of what you wrote - why waste your time and post this in this board of
ugly trolls? You might at least try and narrow down to the most important points (reducing the tl;dr danger :D) and post it on the official boards... cause if you wanna have the slightest chance of changing the game, it's there.