As much as I feel shotguns need a huge buff, there’s a staggering difference between sneaking around picking up kills from behind against bad players with no awareness, and dominating with precision aiming against bad players with no aim or dodge capabilities.
Even with shotties at a usual 1 HTK, shotguns will still always be massive garbage in comp since good players don’t ever let shotgun classes get close enough.
And when a class like a pocket Fragger are almost unkillable because of how much HP and firepower they have, you need a reasonable counter. Shotguns already aren’t that counter, Thunder is banned since conc nades are too good against such tiny teams, and Rhino is too slow and weak to handle Fragger nades. Snipers are the answer, sadly.
If snipers make you that mad, then you should really work on engaging them.