It comes as an age old saying.... Crats are still better NTs than NTs...
So question then is.. What is goal of NT... What is the profession best at...
Area of Effect attacks.
That is the one and only slot where NT is best. Everything else... Other profs are vastly superior.
I did some fun on NT today, inferno, tower defense 2x, battlestation 3x. Let me be honest NT was great at towers... Doubles landed just fine in my nanoskill setup... New inferno missions... Just great, stand in middle and nuke around... Battlestations? It for sure does not feel as strong as it did right after 18.7 lunch. Now it feels just fine. And I mean it. Atleast in my combined scout setup.
Allasround good fun. But in my heart I know many other professions would be better... Except maybe for towers.... There I got many kills... Simply because my nukes landed well.