Sidearms are great I’ve been using them for a while now. Not even Hawkmoon could pull me away from using them, and that’s saying something as I loved that gun in d1. I just feel sidearms offer me a lot more mobility over a hc so I can play more aggressive. I feel stasis also helps sidearms, with freezing and slowing it allows me to get into effective range easier and also keeping away from shotguns. I’m currently using Travellers Chosen and which seems pretty strong when you have full stacks. It’s a little annoying the stacks dont carry over between rounds of Survival and I’m guessing Trials, but I’ve got better at hard reloading for full abilities for next round. I’m sure at the very high level sidearms will probably be out played by both hc and shotguns 🤷🏻‍♂️.