I agree the Catabolyst is incredibly clunky to use. It's so unnatural for weapons to not auto reload in horde/bullet sponge games. Your suggestions for improving the weapon certainly takes it in a more natural direction. However,
I disagree on this because this will create a play style where people would just shoot once and reload.
My proposition would be, we can keep the weapon as it is but,
-The weapon auto reloads on empty.
-The grenades have a short fuse with an indicator when it is tossed for players to react to it.
-The grenade is tossed immediately on empty to prevent a