I just remembered that last night I had a dream that splatoon 2 had a weapon called the "Mother of all chargers" and its whole gimmick was that it could kill with a partial charge (like in S1) but it was really weak in everything else so in Splatoon 3 they merged it with gootuber which only had its charge hold gimmicks but they were scared so they nerfed goo really hard before s3 came out so thats why goo is bad now
It can certainly be used more aggressively but it's not reliable, though it does feel good pushing in with Blob and getting away with it.