I can count on one hand how often I use shove in combat. Instead of using any other number of bonus actions.
I dunno, I am playing as bard and shoving seems to be in most cases a better choice then using my signature limited inspiration - chances to hit don’t really require buffing (not when getting pushed gives a chunk of your party +2 to hit). I do heal with bonus action when I need to. Other then that, not using push by default is just a self restrain rule. And bard has 9 strength giving me “only” about 50% of success.
And I haven’t fought around instant death pit, where one gets to roll every turn to permanently remove enemy from combat regardless of his HP (and vice versa).
If it was PvP push would be meta.
Again, in most cases I can just pretend it’s not broken, but then you have a fight with duergards where it’s push or be pushed to death.
