I'm curious to see this in action, Bit. I did some testing against a multitude of characters early on - my goal was to find strings / specials that could be read and then evaded for full punish...I found nothing that fit this bill that wouldn't be better blocked or backdashed on read.
Do you have any examples? I don't think the Evade is useless, and I think 1frame vs 2frame is absolutely better, but it's been my understanding that the move is truly only useful as a way to build meter and cat scratches when certain opponents try to zone you out.
You block a Green Lantern jump 3 and think he's going to do f+3. You can evade the f+3 and trait cancel is a punish. You can backdash the f+3 but he recovers in time you can't do anything.