Combat stims do basically nothing now (data inside). Is this a bug, or did strength/endurance/stamina get nerfed into the ground and I missed the boat?

Recently I started buying stims to pop at match start in an attempt to get to high tier loot spawns and shoot the hatchlings before they shove it up their ass. I felt like I was getting lackluster results, so I decided to time running an identical route in offline while on various stims.

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My base skills are at Endurance 26 and Strength 12. The route I ran was on interchange running from Emercom extract, through Oli, up escalator by techlight and ending in front of the center bay windows on the second floor. These are the times for each run.

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**CONTROL - NO STIMS 2:24**

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**Adrenaline: 2:23** (+20 strength, +20 endurance, lasts 60 seconds)

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**Red Combat stim SJ1: 2:21** (+25 strength, +25 endurance, lasts 180 seconds)

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**Blue Combat stim SJ6: 2:20** (max stamina +50, stamina recovery +2.5, lasts 240 second)

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I ran each test a second time and got very similar results. As it is they are clearly NOT worth it, and possibly even doing nothing at all with my results being within margin of error. Anyone have more info about this being a bug, or intentional nerf? Strength and endurance used to be incredibly powerful skills, but if this is intentional and also applies to players of equal soft skill level then leveling those skills is completely pointless now.