End game help?

Hey everyone! I was just wondering if there's muchnim missing when it comes to end game? Things like steel path, archon hunts etc seem so simple for everyone else but me and my friend really don't feel strong enough or like we're putting great damage out despite having decent builds that we put alotta work into etc, Should we be utilising the operator more? Are their rarer mods that were added to try help balance the difficulty spike at some point? I used to play on a different account way before the new war, where sorties were kinda as hard as the game got and It felt balanced but now it just feels like we get shxt on and could just use some advice to level the playing field 😂