Pikes, as well as Daggers, are weapons that benefit most from lag + auto lock.
The pikes themselves aren’t the problem, if everything is going smoothly.
They are the current dueling meta, to be certain, but that can be ascribed as much to stamina management, debuff infliction, and the roll game, as anything else.
Some weapons are honestly not really designed for dueling due to speed (lack there of) and focus on AoE vs Single Target. That’s fine, this one does not object to screw drivers and hammers being different tools for different jobs, but all part of carpentry.
TLDR; The Pike highlights the other issues at play, as opposed to being just op in it’s own right.