Went ahead and tried Mechwarrior Online again.
LRMs were nerfed into uselessness, as they require almost as good of aim as lasers to lock, but take longer to lock than it takes for lasers to burn, then you also have to maintain lock as well. (this is bad)
Almost everything else is identical to the last time I played, apart from a near doubling of the number of maps, (a good thing) a PSR reset, (another good thing) a new matchmaker that does worse than the old one that sucked, (bad) and a PSR system update that didn't fix ANY of the problems that the old one had. (worse)