Well yeah he's kind of garbage but he's better than no cattail, imo this is a whole sweet potato-garlic situation, sweet potato is out beofre and does the same as the original plant and then the original plant comes out and no one uses it
And I agree, the only way they can make plants good now is making already existing or new plants OP, there's no actual strategic use anymore it's just spam the OP plant to defeat the spam of zombies