I do understand your point, I just disagree with your conclusion, I have more fun with the bolt because it is a very effective weapon, except in CQB of course, a shot with a bolt providing it hits the head or the chest area, hitting the arm or leg will only wound which is as it should be, the semi auto rifles seem less powerful which I disagree with because they are using the same rifle rounds as the bolts are, they should be perhaps slightly less accurate but the power should remain the same.
I agree that draining your stamina should affect your aim more than it does, but sprinting to exhaustion does affect your aim now, it just needs the effect increasing a bit.
I agree that the damage should be more reflective in the game, limping and slow movement for leg wounds, increased sway and shake with arm wounds, and all over character reduction for any wound.
I do play on a large public server, my clans server ThePARA we have a excellent server, 2 in fact, 1 TE and 1 CD, and I play on it constantly, I am the highest ranked player on our TE server, by a long way, and I still say take your SMG all you want
I will still kill you no matter what weapon I have
The only weapon changes I really want to see are the option for ALL classes (of course Anti tank and MG cant) to be able to pick a bolt rifle, not forced just the option, for example I hate to take the commander or SL role, or even the engineer because I want a bolt rifle. A lot of my clan members feel the same way but no doubt some people will eventually make mods and mutators for that.
At the end of the day, the best and highest scoring players on our server all play with rifles and that tells its own story and completely disproves your point