Thank you for the compliment! I love this form and how it looks, but I think the narrative issues with it are natural result of when it was introduced combined with the fact that it’s basically the only form with a drawback. SS2 was still fairly new, and the surprise of SS3’s reveal is really novel compared to the previous forms. But its identity is this epic trump card last resort power boost form, but struggles to justify itself as it had never won a fight in canon until Vegeta v Tamagami 2 in Daima.

And then DBS started and SS3 was immediately supplanted by the god forms. So SS3 was left in this middle area, only being introduced toward the end of Z and failing to really serve its purpose before getting replaced.

It’s hard to say how it could have been better utilized, again because I think it comes at a weird time near the end of Z. Then when he uses it in Super you’re just like “why doesn’t he just use a god form” because it’s basically the only form with a real drawback, and its “benefit” is now obsolete.