Just chiming in that my opinion hasn’t changed since the last post. A good beam RS sienna is pretty ludicrous in ways no other staff can compare. I think most players just see the bad beam pyros or don’t know how to use it themselves.
Doubt any of the forum regulars are going to be convinced in either direction at this point. Fatshark hasn’t gone into much (any?) detail about design decisions either, so I guess we’ll just have to wait for when bug/balance patches start up again.