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They aren't for the most part, but I'm still accumulating them so I might as well use the ones I do pick up. I think their main issue for me is how their own separate healthpool gets chipped down slowly and there's not much you can do about it. I do find them satisfying for destroying and pve mobs, though.
Outside of solo, I can see them being very effective in a well-coordinated team, especially after using whatever glider type it is that uses those jamming missiles/haze diffusers. The cooldown on those are absurd and you can just sit in the jamming cloud yourself to be immune to energy attacks nearly indefinitely and that's with just one glider. Never seen the turret recon drones, but those seem insane, too.
If only gliders weren't so absurdly rare (really only ever find sniper gliders)...