Shadestep really isn't all that good, the smoke grenade doesn't cancel supers like a supression grenade, you have to sacrifice the other melee perks to have insane range, but it doesn't one shot like shoulder charge. You also have to sacrifice your other perks to have the one where it lasts longer, but you have to have full grenade and melee. Very situational. Idk about you, but I'm always using my grenades and melee in PvP. Hammer of Sol can one shot any super, but cannot by one shotted by any timed super. Insane blast radius, damage resistance and healing, more hammers than GG shots, no damage falloff, tracking hammers, all that just screams OP.

People are shade step past gun fire and right in shot gun range from insane distances, it's feeling like blink and shotgun. Smoke bombs at canceling the movement ability, that is quite a lot when mixed with damage, view distortions and being a throwing object rather than a melee.