Just an idea, but I believe this would singlehandedly solve a lot of people's issues with the multiplayer experience in one fell swoop.

Imagine: One level in the style of a campaign level if it had no dialogue, hardest difficulty, 4 players only, 1 life each, no timer. At the start, everyone won't get very far because they're not using good stuff, but they get more points the more targets they take out. It forces newbies to learn and appreciate actual skill within the game as they play along the grind. Eventually, a team of 4 will finally be able to beat the level once they've worked for it, and completion would give a bit bonus in all categories.

Project Aces and Bandai, please. It really is this easy, and it would keep me and my brother for the entire grind. Otherwise, I'm bored of constantly contributing nothing in Co-op Assault, and I'm tired of getting wrecked by lowlifes with no job piloting a paywalled supercomputer. If we had proper Co-op modes that weren't so quick or boring for people without whatever nuke the PXY has, this game will stay alive for so much longer than it will if you do nothing to fix the current poor experience.

Last thing. The campaign is an 11 out of 10. I absolutely love it, and it's already revitalized my hope for the future, and it's crazy that I can say that about a game about airplanes shooting hundreds of missiles at each other. It just feels like, when coming from campaign and going into multiplayer, that every wrong decision was made on purpose in order to ruin the whole thing. Just give us co-op campaign missions without dialogue with more targets, and one life per player, or 4 collective lives per team. That is all that's required to make this game so much greater.