I don’t think it’s the fact that we have power weapons, but rather that they counter vehicles too easily.
The spartan laser will wreck any vehicle within a few seconds and theoretically has almost no chance of missing. The vehicle owner has no chance of escaping it other than to simply die… In Halo 2 this problem was non-existant because we had no spartan laser, but we had lock-on rocket launchers. The only difference? A skilled banshee pilot could dodge these lock-on rockets provided they knew what they were doing. Pilots/drivers actually stood a chance on the battlefield.
Now vehicles just get destroyed on sight by any team with lasers, and there’s usually multiple lasers on the map owned by both teams, reducing big team matches to DMR fights across the map with some flanking while a few people camp the vehicle spawns to get blown up again.
This was one of my issues with Halo 3 and I eventually learned to avoid vehicles unless I was with some friends and we all hogged the lasers and kept them from the enemies.
How about we get rid of all guns because the BR and the DMR can destroy a ghost and a banshee in a roughly 3 magazines if your shooting it by yourself. Most people usually don’t drive into enemy territory in big team any ways because they’s pansies.