Is the demo to similar to the soldier?

Really, I don't think that demo needs a nerf as much as he needs to be more disimilar to the soldier. The demoman is way too similar to the soldier if you ask me.

Similarities:
Both classes slot 1 weapon have 4 rounds, are explosive, have travel time, and each round is reloaded individually.
Both classes do damage to themselves in melee range
Both classes do best at medium range
Both classes are good against sentries
Both classes are pretty much screwed if both their weapons have to be reloaded in combat
Both classes have weapons that can be reflected by a pyro
Both classes can use explosives to rocket/sticky jump

Differences:
Soldier has a shotgun, while the demo has stickies
Soldier has slightly more health, while demo has slightly more speed
Soldier has direct fire weapons, while demo has indirect fire weapons
They have somewhat different explosive jumping mechanics
Demomen can remote detonate their stickies whenever they want


That's all I can think of right now. Most the differences are quite trivial, and need to be more significant. I think the demo should be more focused on sentry destruction, traps, and firing from behind cover and less focused on a direct battle.

My $0.02.

On second thought, I probably should have made a seperate thread for this, but for some reason I can't copy it and I'm too lazy to type it again. "

Well I did make a thread about it so expand.  And please lets not devolve into a nerf, OP war.  We are talking about comparing and contrasting 2 classes, nothing else.