You honestly think Bungie balances around the forums, which are probably less than 10% of it's playerbase, and not based on stats? Bungie has said time and time again they want variety and everything to be viable, if people aren't playing a variety of stuff they nerf the stuff everyone is playing to spread out the field more. It's not their fault every kid and their grandma is trying to KDA whore and playing the same "best" junk in every match. It's the communities.