There are only three ways to manage the existing imbalance:
1) players handicap themselves.
2) CMs adjust the settings they have the power to adjust
3) inno fixes things
1) unreliable, unenforcible, language barriers, egos, etc. make this a fool's errand
2) we've gotten a lot closer thanks to the efforts they HAVE gone along with, but for some reason they have been ignoring our pleas for the last 15 days
3) if the change requires the dev team it's not really even worth discussing -- it won't happen. Even simple ideas like undo prior tweaks in part or in whole (tower buffs) go nowhere and new ideas just won't even get the time of day.
That being said, presenting VERY SIMPLE ideas that should be trivial to implement and certain to have small, predictable impacts may be worth presenting.
To that end here's one idea in category 3:
disable character buffs in Fort Fight Defenses.
It's a small tweak, that should be easy to implement and have a small and predictable, but non-trivial, impact.