Lusted, I commend you for trying. It sounds like you are on to something as well. We need CA to stamp fixes like this or they will never be accepted and I am sure the community could iron out gameplay for a decent MP. I don't know what it is about the MP community but Mods have never been accepted by more than a handful of players
My view on this is that modders generally have the time/will to make the small changes needed for a good balance, we probably have more time than CA to work on this stuff as wel as they will likely be bug fixing atm. So im trying to get CA to realise that using modder balanced files could help improve the balance of the game for both mp and sp. Im hoping they will listen to me.