Is it just me or does Kalista still suck shit?

It's the meta not the champ riot doesn't want to buff her because she might get out of hand again.

she just not in the meta atm, Riot dont want to change her to much as she is hard to balance and she could be op or just be made even more useless

The actual physical end of this is really where at least one big issue lies.

Your passive has you try to click to move between every auto-attack. Hop-hop-hop... meanwhile, you need to target enemies. "Whoops, hopped toward the enemy." is distinctly a big issue.

It's also an issue with Kindred's Q. The directional change/shift you're trying to make is in 2 different directions. If you're chasing someone down, sure, that's going to help, but if you're kiting or strafing... suddenly you get this thing where you're trying to go sideways while casting a skill.

There's definitely other distinct issues with the champs, but I think the core mechanics are really counter-productive in this. Any delay a network or computer gives compounds the issue. You might see a pro player do really well with this, but even for them, it's distinctly putting them at a dis-advantage from the get-go, that fraction of a second that they're shifting is a fraction of a second the enemy doesn't have to deal with.