Alright, I'm a little lost as to how to even begin to approach this topic, but I feel like it is a reasonable request regardless of the amount of hate it will bring from new players. I'll try to keep this short and sweet.
Currently, in my eyes, more than ever before, syndicate bombs obtained from the PDA serve as more a nuisance than they actually add game-play wise. My suggestion is to, similar to quite a few other syndicate items, restrict the bombs to Nuke Ops only, simply because of their power to fuck over quite a few people if used correctly.
I believe restriction should occur for the following reasons...
Excessive Antagging is still a rule if I'm not mistaken, most new players do not know better and having easy, powerful, bombs at their disposal simply does not mix
If an Antag does have a legitimate reason for a bomb, there is science mixing. This helps to ensure only experienced players who are much less likely to abuse bombs are the ones with access to them
There are very few legitimate reasons for using bombs as normal antags, the only objective that really justifies it is to escape on the shuttle alone (correct me if I'm wrong)
Anyways, to have a syndicate item that destructive and only acceptable in so few situations just isn't sound in my opinion, which is obviously why I'm calling for its restriction as I've seen its abuse far to much in this past week. Many thanks for reading and sorry for the cheesy style of writing, heh. Feel free to add more below