Fraudulent Playable Zero (he's really a X)

Mega Man X3's Zero is a fraud. Is he zero? No, he just is a recolored X. This is why the life ups never change to a Zero life up: it's a recolored X. Gameplay wise, he has no meat on his bones by only having a five stage charge attack. The first three stages are just a reskinned X charged shot. The later two stages are a bogus double buster attack which are: too slow, too weak, and too clunky. Just firing a lv2 charge and spamming shots is an improvement over the atrocious triple combo. The most valuable part of the attack (Z-saber) locks your movement and has a terribly long start up. It also doesn't help that getting kissed with a mace cancels the attack and therefore the entire charge. When Zero's best method of attack is shared with X, is he truly necessary to use? NO, that guy's not even Zero. He's just X. Actually, he's a general downgrade over a max leveled X. Zero's capped out at 28 units of health vs X's 32. Zero's bigger and slower (which is why the mosquito took his soul) than X. Why is Zero large in this game? Who knows, the peace between X2 and X3 could've made this reploid duller and heavier. Then Zero doesn't get the chance to be playable for a long amount of time. Zero Project makes Zero marginally better by penetrating I-frames. Zero Project doesn't solve X3's Zero's true issues, which is Zero still being boring, slow, and a X reskin despite the increased playability time. To be brutally honest, X7 has a more interesting and fun Zero to play as compared to X3. At least X7's Zero can use the Saber Cancel Triad compared to X3's biggest tech being the ability to jump while using a Double Buster shot.