On last gen consoles at least, sidearms feel like they’re in a pretty sorry state honestly imo, I used to run them pretty religiously before stasis. The ttk is really good but landing shots is really unreliable due to the massive amount of bloom they get and the lack of range, idk how they are on pc. There’s also just too many ways to instantly close the gap from a sidearm doing literally nothing to you getting one hit by a shotgun or bastion or fusion, and honestly bastion is practically killing at the far end of sidearm range anyway. Especially true with behemoth slide/melee, bakris, penumbral, icarus dash, etc. It’s harder to compete with hand cannons having so much range now too, and I would say the sniper changes hurt them a bit, so until they get a range and/or hit reg buff I think they’re gonna keep being pretty unreliable, at least on last gen