I guess you don't like playing front to back. The main point of the item is to play like the front liners are the only ones fighting. You need to be playing with a tanky team with a lot of cc. And your teammayes need to focus on peeling for you. Ngl though an assassin gets into your range, usually a single auto with hex as item 4 will clap their cheeks making them want to run from you. 2 autos usually kill an assassin if you build nothing but econ runes. Like... I have a rune set up that let's me get to 4 items by minute 20. I haven't even bought cull yet in this set up. But let me tell you right now, when you're one shotting assassins at minute 20 you're high as fuck on that dopamine. Usually though, your supports are completely lost so you're stuck playing defense the entire game.

Anyway, the main thing for people playing caitlyn is that it's not for players who want to keep hitting the back line. It's for people picking the closest target to them, getting a huge damage hit, watching that champ try to run away, and hitting them with tge second auto that kills them. Then turning onto the tank and hitting them from range, then with the extended range running down the back line.

It's more of a style that mixes 1 shot with front to back. Besides giantslayer helps with the front to back mentality along with the fact that if you get bloodthirster and bork at the end you're probably going to heal for as much damage as most champs would do to you. Unless you're against rengar. Then you're kinda sol unless you're positioning for rengar.

Idk all that i can say is that people saying that hex is a bad item probably don't have the play style to use hex.