See the two words I highlighted? "real gameplay." It's twelve years since your argument had any merit whatsoever. Homecoming is a labor of love for people who want to have fun playing the game. The end-game "all that matters is incarnate munchkin power groups" were a real thing to complain about back when NCSoft ran CoH as a subscription service - you were, after all, a paying customer of a commercial product.
This isn't a commercial product anymore. If all you can find joy in is post-50 meta builds, that's cool - you do you. But don't gripe about not every class not being twinked to max the way *you* want to play. This version of the game is - more than any other MMO, ever - for relaxing and experiencing all the fun that most people never get a chance to get to in a live-service, subscription-based game.
Sentinels are fun as-is. They may not be everything possible in the end game, and that's ok. I'd strongly suggest you take a step back and look larger than just metas. Actually play to have fun with different ways and not just following lock-step with arbitrary end-game dogma.
