Going off your post, you don't even recognize what a crutch truly is. Allow me to drop some knowledge on your ass. A crutch is something that makes up for a player's lack of skill, such as when bad players could still get super high scores with pre-nerf Hammer of Sol or the pre-nerf Hopscotch Pilgrim because of how ridiculously effective they were. When a weapon is strong in the hands of a good player, but bad in the hands of a bad player, that's balance. When a weapon is strong even in the hands of a bad player, that's what calls for a nerf. Crutches exist, people just haven't learned the proper definition and throw words around.