Yeah, I can't say I would disagree. Although I don't mind Kogami losing to the mercs. They were clearly superior skills wise and far more ruthless, and above all, there were many of them. Kogami did handle the government troops quite fluently, though. Hard to judge the Akane case. It's possible Kogami has been working as a sniper most of the time, so maybe he's rusty with his pistol. All in all considering he was fighting the whole army, if things got to the pistol level, he would be screwed in any case. So, I'll forgive him that isolated case. It's not like Akane wouldn't have trained, and the only thing she ever trained were melee and pistol.

But yeah, it's a story problem. His role ended up being a punching bag, which wasn't cool at all. At least he did save Akane once. That hopefully gave Akane a bit of doki doki.