Despite the popularity. The game is still in Early Game Access therefore still in beta of sorts.
Yes, season 2 was unfortunately filled with mistakes from the devs and hopefully they learned from this experience. I just wish they had set the reset for Season 2 much sooner rather than a month later but I can see why the current date for Season 3.
The nerfs they did to armor in Season 2. Evidently ended up buffing "Recon' (AKA Snipers) heavily.
The Therms scope still hasn't been nerfed enough. There has been talks from the Devs about removing the item overall. In my opinion, they can just reduce the range of the Thermal Range Finder. And to overall nerf Recon, they can limit how many people are tagged per player, and reducing the number of seconds a player is "pinged" on the map.
Season 3 will be much longer as the Devs have mentioned over and over again. They are also going on a 1 month hiatus (break) in December. So I do not see Season 4 anytime soon, most likely by February 2027.