Healthy change imo regardless of how much I enjoyed using it. Giving demo long range damage output along with random kills is probably not a good thing. People also don't talk about how much better it was at close range engagements because of how much faster the projectile is and how you don't really have to lead the shots like you do with pipes you can just aim them like hitscan.
That being said the reasoning given behind the ban was so out of touch lol.