Nothing you said there I didn't already state above, with the exception of low armor builds (which most people shouldn't use). Again, I think a lot of the Meta has to deal with personal playstyles. If you have a good playstyle using Thorn (or something similar like Ace of Spades) then you will of course use Thorn. But Thorn has never been and is not the alpha and omega. Oh the HCs Thorn will be second to TLW and just ahead of First Curse for competitive usage, but I think it'll be barely 5th of top 5 primaries when there is TLW, Mida, Doctraine, Grasp, Bad JuJu, etc etc