I feel like at minimum they need to immediately adjust something about LBs to ensure they go off because there's an extremely small window where if you get CC'd immediately after activating one, your gauge will get consumed but nothing will happen.

The bots are designed to try actively cause this to happen if they have CC available when someone LBs in range of them, and it's a completely game-changing advantage that cannot be pulled off legitimately with any degree of consistency.