This right here. Again, i’ll drop this quote from Zantai in with the key portion in bold:
Crucible is an AoE-centric environment. Physical Cadence by nature then should be at a disadvantage here. If you push it to perform decently in an area it is going to struggle in, it’s gonna be insane in situations that play to it’s advantages.
I think the problem here is that certain players/builders have come to expect a build to perform equally in all areas of the game whereas there is an intent that certain archetypes should excel in some areas and be less efficient in others evidenced by Zantai’s initial response.