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Yeah, Liquifer Gun > Shattershard. It's cheaper, reuasble, and APD6
I'm still not sold on the Flesh Gauntlets... I just take Venom Blades on my Haems.

Also, I can safely say from the games I've played so far that flickerfields are still needed, Jink is good, but on the first turn and in CC it's useless.

Also in this edition, I'm advocating not taking the splinter cannon on the Razorwing - primarily because you're either going to be firing the 2 lances + 2 missiles at ground targets, or dogfighting, between that and zooming off the board to get a better angle, the Splinter Cannon is either going to be ignored, only hitting on 6's, or useless.

I'm taking the Dissies on my Raiders, my Razorwing I'm kitting out with lances / monos / rifles / flickers as aerial hunters, because otherwise there's very little we can do to reliably kill enemy aircraft. (As opposed to 5th when it was lances / cannon / monos / flickers as an effective jack-of-all-trades)

And yes - there's little to no point in taking anything other than monoscythes.

It's mostly a cost-vs-payoff thing.
All the missiles are a low AP, so all MEQs get their save regardless, and with how expensive the Razorwing is anyway...
Monoscythes being Str6, Ap5 mean they wound most targets you'll be shooting on a 2+ anyway (T4 or less), and MEQ / TEQ saves mean they'll likely save a significant amount of wounds anyway, and they also have some use against vehicles.

Necrotoxins wound on a 2+, but can't hurt vehicles at all and as stated above, it's only against T5+ it really helps.

With the Shatters they're better at wounding with the re-rolls, but again, still 2+ again most of the time, and slightly better agaisnt vehicles (though in 5th, the AP- worked against it.)

In 5th, I'd always take monoscythes on the Razorwing because of this, and frankly, probably the same in 6th.

On the Voidraven, It'll probably be Shatters, especially being that Ap- isn't a negative, and it's the same str against vehicles across the entire template.