Long fights coming down to armor durability

This isn't something I can comment on too much (as I haven't engaged in much pvp this season), but from what I was told, fights between well geared players can come down to armor durability. Based on what Epic said in the past, and there being cooldowns on gapples and enchanted gapples, I'm assuming this is not intended Not sure of the exact details, but contributing factors may or may not include gapples and enchanted gapples having separate cooldowns, civ perks (one of the civs gets regen at low health I think), and prot 8 armor