[2019] Free Trial Weekend capped at level 8?

Cheers, friends.

I played Division 2 in the beta, but never bought it. Today the Free Weekend started, so a friend of mine and I wanted to give it another shot.

I now reached level 8 and I cannot deal any damage to opponent (except for "meleeing" them). My buddy (still level 7) just does the mission we are in together solo. Also when we leveled up to level 7 it said something like "Free Trial ends on next levelup" which already confused us.

So, does Ubisoft actually lock this so called "Free To Play Weekend" behind a trial-system that does not allow us to play beyond level 8? We really wanted to get a feeling for the later times in the game and maybe see parts of the endgame when we eventually reach level 30, but limiting us here won't really help us to make the decision wheather we should actually buy the game or rather not.

I'm aware that all is free and everything, but this is not really what we wanted to see - level 8 was already reachable in the beta. Only the map is more accessible, now.

In my opinion this was a poor decision to make by Ubisoft, but what do I know? Anyways, I'm disappointed. This didn't really help my decisionmaking.

I'm kinda aware that this just sounds like one big whining, but was anyone really aware that this weekend would be locked at this point for everyone playing it for free? I didn't find a word about it being limited other than by time.