This however is entirely speculation on your part.
Mephisto was weaker because your character was lower level. It's a game balance issue, it has nothing to do with lore.
Lore dictates game balance, especially with Blizzard North. If Mephisto was not inherently weaker than Diablo, he would not have been able to be killed earlier in the game. He also wouldnt have been content for lower level characters, but he was. I'm not going to say this as fact, however, I do know Baal was so powerful, they decided to use him in an expansion of his own... Aka, at level 20 or so, you got to kill Duriel... But Baal wasn't there... Its a question of why they chose Baal for the expansion. Almost simply put, because you couldnt of killed Baal at level 20 so they removed him entirely and gave you Duriel.
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Which is also speculation, because what would be the point of killing Diablo in Hell and then smash his soulstone, just to get him back.
The general consent is that Diablo and Mephisto have both been banished to the Abyss, and smashing the soulstones was necessary to stop them from coming bakc by possessing another being.
Because it removes Diablo and Mephisto from Sanctuary, in effect, they have to find it all over again. You were only fighting their Spirit forms, after all. Their physical forms were still in Hell waiting for their spirits to return, at least, I don't know where else their physical forms would be.
Also, the "hell" in Diablo 2 may not be the actual, real hell, as Azmodan and Belial were nowhere to be found, nor any of their followers.
Also, smashing the soulstones was needed so they would be banished back to Hell again, and no longer be present on Sanctuary. This is simple, because, the prime evils were on Sanctuary without Soulstones to begin with. In other words, they only needed to possess a human being because they were imprisoned. Without the soulstones, they have free reign and are in their "true demonic" forms. They don't need a host without being imprisoned in the soulstone.
Personally i don't think the soultones matter much at all. As previously stated they are an anchor to Sanctuary. It appears to me the worldstone does in fact physically prevent the 3 from entering Sanctuary. Why would they not have started a war.. I doubt they cared about Sanctuary being destroyed by heaven. This is where Tyrael comes into play.
He has been working on the evil side all along. It was his idea to make the Soulstones so perehaps he intended Baal to corrupt the worldstone so he would have an excuse to destroy it. This would allow Hell to flood in sanctuary.
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Personally i don't think the soultones matter much at all. As previously stated they are an anchor to Sanctuary. It appears to me the worldstone does in fact physically prevent the 3 from entering Sanctuary. Why would they not have started a war.. I doubt they cared about Sanctuary being destroyed by heaven. This is where Tyrael comes into play.
He has been working on the evil side all along. It was his idea to make the Soulstones so perehaps he intended Baal to corrupt the worldstone so he would have an excuse to destroy it. This would allow Hell to flood in sanctuary.