Ballpoint and Dread especially are forced to being niche picks in their current state while if they had a strong synergistic kit (BP’s kinda strong (or would be if not for Zooka) but not very synergistic, Dread’s very synergistic but not that strong) they’d have the ability to create new playstyles for compositions to give more potential options for weapons that are currently difficult to fit, even with a good kit (Gloogas, Squiffer, Dualie Squelchers, Blob, Bow, Dynamo, Brella, and to an extent even Carbon and S’Blast). We have a ton of weapons that while can work, are forced to be built around to make work. That would be fine if we had a lot of weapons that could be used as enablers for those niche picks but we don’t, leading to team comps feeling very samey despite different weapons, and even that bit of diversity is being threatened by Pencil and Zooka since we don’t have good enough options for other specials (ESPECIALLY inkjet and inkstorm). Those problems won’t be completely fixed with custom kits but it would be much more bearable because there would be so many more options.