I made a chem bomb once. It was awful.
Created by: D3athrow-Issues
(WEB REPORT BY: killette2 REMOTE: 158.69.55.2:7777) So one round I made a 300 unit bomb of 100 glycerin, 100 s acid, and 100 p acid. The explosion was very underwhelming gibbing nobody, even though I was right beside it, and only seriously injuring but outright killing nobody either.
Chemical bombs are severely underpowered for the work put in, but there is several ways to make chemical bombs more powerful without making that power too easy to get. Current chemical science is "let's see how much shit we can put into smoke" when it could also be about explosions. Perhaps make bigger explosions, but costing more ingredients such as welder fuel, liquid plasma, or some other refined reagent made from a comination of things.
I do not believe any feature should be nerfed to the point where there's little to no reason to use it compared to other features.