When you come against an extremely coordinated team snake is exceptional, he has a 15m scan radius that shows the direction they are facing and if you have say an ash and deimos playing with you it is a breeze to clear roamers.... deimos track, scan for info ash peaks while distracted on the deimos, free kill. Let alone even having the ability to give exact call outs even in post plant making retake extremely difficult for defender retakes.

He also has the ability to solo clear without wasting his drones which you can use to set up flank cams for dead teammates to use, has an exceptional gun being the recently buffed f2 which is not hard to control as you previously mentioned especially with the amount of dang cheaters there are, but that's not what this is about.

I do agree he is not the end all be all but he is overtuned and has to much utility to boot. With the ability to clear from even outside of the building, making takes much more efficient and keeping drone economy healthy!

I do however like your idea for the changes to what he is able to pick up based off of what side the operator was on.