You are not the only one who is wondering what's going on. It is getting worse instead of better. Big fights can not happen because of performance issues. Even smaller fights are painfully laggy. Skills don't work, barswaps don't work, breaking free doesn't work... Especially on the weekends. NPCs sometimes just stop working and stand there with the weapons in their hands, doing nothing. We still have loadingscreens in the middle of fights, bluescreens and disconnects. Every maintenance, update and dlc is breaking something new. Some bugs have been in the game for years. There has not been any new content for a long time. They take things away instead of adding new stuff. Not just the bambis in the woods had to go. Group size got smaller. The maximum number of players allowed on the map is getting smaller. Most sets had to go for a while. And even with all the cuts, reductions and "tests" the performance is so bad that many players just ragequit and never come back. The playerbase is so small now that there is almost nothing happening on the map anymore. Nobody knows if and when there will be an improvement. But it does not look good. Maybe someone is working on in, but whatever they are doing isn't really helping. It feels more like damagecontrol and triage than a real solution. I still hope the operation will be successful one day, but the patient already feels very cold and looks pretty pale. And please don't misunderstand. This is not some form of exaggeration, trolling, baiting, bullying or whatever. It is a realistic description of what we have to deal with at the moment. At least on Playstation EU.

(edited to remove speculation)

Hope new hardware make game better.
Hope it would be in 2023.