It's mean to be the HoS, AKA officer supreme's signature weapon. Hence why it's more powerful than a stun baton, which is my experience is only better than a ghetto stun prod. Police batons, regular stun prods, old telebaton were more useful.
Anyways, I'm in support of these changes. Including Carver's idea of armour negating the effect with armour. The telebaton should be a weapon to be used to disable, not kill.