I moan about imbalance in forts all the time, I stopped caring about how broken duels were years ago. I've never played Adventures because there was no matchmaking system or balance from the very start. It was an incomplete feature that was shoved out in an alpha state because they were downsizing the Dev team.
There's actually a squad-up feature that diggo (praise him) made for adventures, that has been on Beta for years, but for some reason unknown to everyone involved, that never made it to the actual game. It would probably help a bit for those times you're forced to play the most broken PvP feature of them all for a quest, since actual development is limited to crappy PvE events, and PvP balancing is an apparent impossibility in 2020, why not use the existing technology to make it a little less tragic to have to participate in this part of the game.