Although I agree with the end part of your post, I disagree with the beginning about Golden Gun/Throwing Knife. First of all, it is only 5 hammers, 7 if you spam it and use forge master. Second, try using it and see how difficult it is to land hammers, especially when the target is in the air. This is why everyone uses surcharge, because it does way more damage and actually is a bit easier to use than hammers, hence why everyone uses it. Hammer are by no means easy to use and it is excessively difficult to lead targets with hammers. Third, golden gun does not take as much skill as you would like to think, the hitbox and aim assist on it is off the charts and is very easy to land at least 2 kills. There is little chance of escape from one if they see you, and the best thing you can hope for when challenging one is a trade, seeing as how it one-shots EVERYTHING now if you use deadeye, including a max-armor, chest-armor wearing, unstoppable-using, striker titan mid fist of havoc. The only reasonable thing to use that maximizes your chances is stickies.