You remember Vex Mytho, Suros Regime, Final Round sniper, Last Word, Thorn? Those who got one of the OP weapons and learned to use it, loved it of course. It was better than the shotgun meta, I will give you that. But sliding and shotgunning was a thing back then. Bladedancer were op like Sunbreaker in the beginning of y2, before Bungie nerfed the perfect PvE class because of PvP.