Most people will pretend that stasis is good and then never use it lol. They think that Shadebinder is a great PvE class but forget that the super is the worst for PvE in the game and you could outright kill a pack of enemies with any other subclass or even just a gun in half (or less) of the time it takes just to freeze them. Bleak watcher is an aspect people put on a pedestal but the thing takes like 2-3 seconds just to freeze one dude. It’s really not very good. Just use a vortex grenade and/or a decent gun and get it over with lol. The element needs to be reworked from the ground up and freeze honestly needs to go. Suspend does it better, and don’t get me wrong they shouldn’t need suspend at all. Just let strand keep that because freeze is what holds stasis back. Crystals encasing enemies can still happen but imo they should be focusing on crystals (with nothing else being able to outright freeze), pure shatters, and a DOT to replace or bolster slow. Frost armor also should explode upon explosion via expiration or it being broken with the AOE and damage increasing based on the number of frost armor stack held. They should forego the freeze by causing physical damage and building stacks of “encrusted” that build up to a large shatter (similar to scorch building to an ignition), and enemies who die will automatically shatter with the damage relative to the amount of encrusted stacks they had. An example: bleakest archer would deal straight up damage rather than slowing and freezing, but in addition to pure damage it will build those encrusted stack, indicated by stasis buildup on their bodies, which build into that shatter. In terms of the DOT, think like dusk field being a whirlwind that also slows with that stasis shrapnel flying around.

Frost pulse gives frost armor and a freezing pulse like arc shockwave from vesper

While I agree Stasis needs more Love, Please don't use the Strand ability uptime as an example, it'll give them the impression that it may need to be looked at and brought down. Strand is fun because of the Chaos it causes when the abilities are active, especially when everyone in the PvE lobby are running it together. Stasis is fun now with the current artifact, but once it's gone, I won't really use it that much anymore.