Remember that this mic has a narrow hypercardiod pattern, and is voiced brighter than some other mics. I've had good success with it on things like (as mentioned before here) a hand drum which was being used as a "bass" drum, where I wanted to reject as much ambient sound from the percussion kit as possible, while "gathering" the hand slap sound with presence. Neither the 012 nor the 414 would have done exactly what I wanted on this instrument ("head" side, not the "hole" end).
But I would never use the 3 as a general overhead, whereas either the 12 or 414 would have worked in that situation.
I also used the 3 this past week successfully on things like hi-hat draped with "shakey things" and "bead-ey things," again to capture a bright sound from the midst of a swirl of percussion and drums.
Again, pick your microphone for the task at hand, and use it according to its design intention.