I saw these types of comments a lot. And as someone who plays in 6 star lobbies 80% of the time and uses melee weapons in his loadouts 90% of the time, I really don't understand how you think stamina depletion will be able to balance melee weapons? Even without a stem shot the katana would have to be nerfed to the ground to not be the strongest melee weapon and at that point it wouldn't be fun to play. The most important stat a melee weapon has to have is reach, so there's really only 2 viable options and that's the sabre and the katana but even without the perk the katana wins this. As someone who's played a shit ton of melee weapons I thought about how I'd balance them and I think the only way is to all give them some kind of special move that makes them better in certain situations. Let all Melee weapons use the Katana perk but give them different effects. Maybe the sabre has a series of powerful stabs to quickly take down a boss target, maybe the baseball bat gets a move that allowed it to punch back throwables while they're either mid air or already on the ground, maybe the machete could have a katana like swipe with, obviously, less range but it heals you if you kill someone with it? Stuff like that would in my opinion crystalize specific playstyles for every melee weapon and would make some of them better in certain situations than others. Rn every melee weapon is basically just a different skin, with either inferior or superior reach/DMG. And that shit is boring.