My opinion still stands that most standard talent options suck by themselves, and with other pre-buffs, it’s still a decent talent.
I understand your post is in the perspective of PvP, but all of PvP right now is a hot garbage fire that’s spreading to the commissary. A lot of the talent changes they’re making isn’t going to help the garbage class balance because, again, they balance by class not by spec.
I hate it. It’s awful. But it’s the way the game has been developed for the past five years. As long as they’re balancing class covenants, instead of fixing particular per spec interactions with the class-wide tools they introduced, all KS could possibly become is a meme and unfun to anyone on the receiving end.