Most of the time the people who complain about OP weapons in crucible don’t actually play it that much. Sure there’s the odd one or two consistent crucible players that join in, but most of the times it’s the vocal minority. Spectral blades was incredibly powerful, but so is Bottom tree FoH, bottom tree dawnblade, all shutdown supers, etc. Unfortunately, it was the most powerful one. So Bungie, along with the community pegged it down a notch.