I slightly agree with your statement on that, however there's more to it just simply being whining. They cried out for nerf because of the crucible being this huge "end game" portion of the game. I understand for certain activities, but I never considered nor liked crucible as an end game content for destiny 1. What I felt should've happened, and still feel this way with destiny 2, is they need to separate stats in crucible and pve contents respectively. A gun was destroyed in pve because it was too good in crucible. I.e. Suros or well all auto rifles for example. They were amazing in pve for right reason but too powerful because of a specific archetype and perk to an auto rifle. Point I'm trying to say is yes, destiny 2 is the way it is because of nerf whiners, but you can't blame just them you look to the developers who can't for absolutely no reason separate stats from each respective game mode. Ps I will add on in my honest opinion I still feel like crucible was what ruined destiny 1 all the way but that's my formulated opinion grand scheme it's the developers.