My understanding is that last league, Ruthless absolutely fucking gutted the league mechanic because it dropped way too much stuff.

My understanding is that this league, Crucible performs exactly the same way in Ruthless, with maybe some minor editing of weapon mods, if even that?

This is, in my opinion, the most egregious problem with the league mechanic. League mechanics should always be too good to be copy/pasted into Ruthless without any nerfs. And that's OK - Ruthless isn't the default experience, so it makes sense that content designed for the main game is tuned to be "too good" for Ruthless.

If a league mechanic can be ported into Ruthless with no nerfs or substantial changes, the problem is the core mechanic is not sufficiently generous.