That was a looonnnggg time ago. I'm mainly referring to the most recent batch of class tunings. It was a very deadly tactic, but still something a good player could counter. Also, Voidwalkers could use the same tactic, that without "QuickDraw" was still very deadly. QuickDraw was only an extremely minute advantage that required you to use a perk. Believe me though, I'm glad that meta got put to rest!

Yeah, I would rather have it where all classes and subclasses could have all their abilities be decent, balanced, and fun to use so it would actually be a challenge to decide what perks to use which would open up more playstyles. Sadly I don't see that day coming anytime soon, and if it does there will still be people complaining that almost perfectly balanced things are still super OP.