I'd just be happy if Bungie could decide what kind of combat role they wanted for Auto-Rifle and then design them around that. They may have not been sure what the role(s) were pre-nerfing. It doesn't help the decision to nerf them was based solely on deployment numbers. That's a very bad use of statistics. More people drive instead of flying, does that mean automobiles need to be made less desirable so more people fly? A more useful data sets would be the win/loss of Auto Rifles against other weapons at different ranges. If the summed decimal values of each weapon class are close to the others then claims on statistical balance can be made.