Ok, CoH devs are all devil worshippers.
It's statesman and the brain, statesman and the brain, one is a genius, the others insane "nerf!"
First: He said "wow, pick any superpower you like" in the alpha stage. So everyone picked high damage range attacks and heavy armour with some regen and speed ability chucked in.
Then he said "no, lets make it so you choose a set of powers, and pick from them". He DID NOT change his own powersets, nor did any of the devs.
Then the nerfing began, and the dev's all have moves which have built in nerf resist.
To this day, they would all be unkillable in PVP, which they occasionally enter and slaughter everybody in. Oh, and I hate them for tohit debuffs. It would be like if Frogboy et al gave themselves a 3000% bonus to miniturisation, attack, and economy, then allowed that game to count for the Metaverse.