what happened to the bots?

I swear the bots used to be monsters where you need to lock in every second if you want to survive, I've been so scared of bots i haven't done a D8+ on them since rocket striders got added. Yesterday I noticed I was growing a bit bored of the D7 bots so I tried dropping into D9 and it was still just a cakewalk, not once in like 3 operations did any mission even come close to failure. So today I tried difficulty 10 against bots, which I've never successfully done before and it was still just a cakewalk. Over about 5 missions on D10 I would say there were about 2 stressful moments where I have to plan my next move carefully and one of those was getting glitched underground. the fortresses were kinda interesting but not much resistance to the point I was able to just run in and solo it after I shot the cannons down from outside.

I wanted to drop in and be under so much stress I start going grey for 40 minutes straight as me and my team desperately try to complete the objectives before our lives run out. I love the chaos so much. What I got was an experience that felt like slightly harder D7 except there was hardly a single POI.

I don't think I'm running some crazy meta loadout that takes the fun out of the game (my loadout is sta11, stim pistol, impact grenade, directional shield, AMR, shield generator and ATE)

so what happened to the bots? why are they so easy now?