M728 CEV - not *that* bad?

I am assuming that with the ongoing sale many more have gotten the CEV, and I wanted to know it isn’t just me that thinks it isn’t horrible.
Yea HESH is inconsistent and unrealistic, and should be fixed, but the CEV feels far from bad.
I played a couple of matches after getting it yesterday and got a k/d of just over 2, with 1 match where I got to see the nuke icon.
You also seem to get so much SL from it, i averaged around 100k a match, so i had fun.
You are also an M60 at 7.0 so you get to fight tigers and whatnot, which is very funny.
As long as you approach it as a shitbox/doohickey, it seems to be very fun to play but it might just be me.