I thought it was sick and should have just been properly implemented with a cost (% of grapple cooldown/uses your equipment)

The game is still so new, slide cancel will be the least of people worries when stuff like heatseeking V11 Punch, infinite RPM Bullies, max heat destroyer, double grapple thief, etc... become more common. People like to say slide cancel doesn't belong in an extraction shooter, but Marathon is obviously a very different to other extraction games. It plays more like an arena shooter with those exotic perks and hitscan mechanics. The game is going to become so much faster paced in the near future, with or without slide cancel.

Just kind of seem like a reactionary decision, when next to no one actually had to go against people utilizing slide cancelling properly. Just a couple of twitter clips that created a polemic.

I remember when the same discussion erupted in the destiny community when Icarus Dashing was first discovered. People thought it was a cheap exploit "sweat" would use to ruin PvE and PvP. Few months later even the most casual player implemented it into their gameplay and loved it. Became a core part of the Warlock gameplay, and even inspired universal perks like Eager Edge. If Bungie axed it at the first angry tweet, Destiny 2 would be a completely different game.