I see the dev is clueless as usual. Too busy planning on removing our weapons and then adding them later in a dlc so that we can pay and grind for them all over again.
The drang is op as hell right now and its been that way a while but i guess people were too busy with erentil. I got one with full auto that kills everything people in healing rifts supers but its balanced i guess.
I think sidearms feel like they did in D1 now. I always ran no land with ironwreath (spelling?) Sidearms were nice in D1 but people really didnt start using them until special got nerfed.
They are good to surprise people with and very good in their intended range but can easily be countered by other primary guns when you you know the range game.