Exotics should feel like exotics and should always be better than legendaries in their weapon class. For instance, I'm a hand cannons guy and I kill mostly with my primary. So, I should choose a exotic hand cannon and use a legendary special and heavy. The same way someone that likes hand cannons but kills mainly with a sniper should have an amazing exotic sniper paired with a legendary hand cannon and heavy weapon. And so on and so forth. Exotics should always be better than legendaries and people should choose using an exotic as a primary, special or heavy according to their style of game and preferencies. What do we have nowadays? Primary legendaries with god rolls that smash almost all exotics. Exotic snipers and shotguns that are a lot worse than most legendaries. And no point in talking about heavy weapons, most exotics suck. Was Destiny less balanced in year one? Yes. Was it more fun? Hell yes. And this is only about pvp, I won't even get into pve because this would be far too long.