[2019] When should you use the crossbow?

I honestly can't tell, i already complained and bugested a lot of the crossbow and so far i see a lot of issues with it, mainly everytime i think it could be good in this situation i quickly also think how much better would have the GL and Tac-50 would have been. Should i use it against heavily armored bosses? the Tac-50 could probably break their armor with 3 shoots and kill the boss while i would have been reload from the second bolt. Should i try making a trap where enemies would be? i could just hit them with the GL. Can you hit people behind cover? Nope. Can you use it to one shot dangerous enemies? nope. Is the status effect relevant? nope. Is the armor bonus relelvant? nope.

So has anyone found any actual use for the crossbow? because causing status effect that lasts almost nothing , does almost no extra damage and by the time you have changed back to your weapon to hit the enemy stuck with bleed the effect would already be half gone.