I don’t deny that the vehicles are much too easy to destroy, however:
You are using vehicles wrong.
Much like how many of Halo Infinite’s weapons were misunderstood at first, you are trying to use vehicles as though this was an older Halo title.
The vehicles have gone through the same evolution as weapons when it comes to how to effectively use them.
For example:
Many players are very used to the idea of the Banshee being able to slowly hover around and drop bombs on people, staying in an area for quite some time until a rocket or spartan laser destroys them.
The new banshee is VERY fast. It’s forward movement speed seems to be about as fast as a boosting banshee from Halo 5 (maybe even a tiny bit faster!)
This makes the banshee a great aerial ambush fighter against ground targets, swooping in and blasting a target before it just as quickly disappears from enemy eyes.
I figured this out as soon as I was destroyed the first time flying it.
Then next few times I’ve got into the banshee, I would circle behind our base then make a dash for where our team was fighting and provide a quick aerial support strafing run, blasting engaged targets (whos shields have been weakened) with the plasma cannons, then finishing the run with a banshee bomb to try to take out a reinforcement target or someone taking cover high up. By the time the enemies are looking up to shoot me, I’m circling around the back of their base, and going the opposite side of where my team is, where the enemy team is most likely going to be pushing forward and have their backs to me. Then I give them the same treatment.
My biggest danger? Sticking around too long and flying too low! I know the banshee can’t take much damage and that there’s likely some dynamo grenades and grappleshots lurking down there, so I need to pay attention and not assume I’m invincible in this vehicle for as long as you would be in older banshees.
It’s actually the most fun in a banshee I have EVER had in any Halo. I started off feeling pretty much the way most of you do, like the vehicles are not good. Then I got a competent driver in the warthog and started getting killtaculars and disrupting enemy progress on the objectives.
That said, vehicles still need a buff. I’d suggest about 25% ‘health’ increase for aerial vehicles and 50% for ground. Was really strange watching armor plating fly off the scorpion tank from AR fire in only 3 seconds.