Cades are weak to everything, take too many materials, repair threshold is pretty shit (since a few swipes makes it unrepairable), repairing takes a long chunk of time, engineers do not start out with enough materials so half the engineers are stuck scavenging because req doesn't have enough materials till late game (but late game doesn't matter because 90% of the time the round ends after the first major team fight so you need materials early game to make a difference).

So many fucking problems with the Combat Engineer class. The removal of all the shit they can do is minor; the massive power creep that makes being even a good engineer mean nothing is why we don't have any engineers capable of anything anymore. Why try hard when a retard 60 IQ beno main can fart on your cades and they blow over like a house of cards.