I had and still have a huge collection of nerfed shotties in my vault. I wish I could give you a tour. Most memorable was a rare (blue) shotgun named Bronzed Chasma Esc with aggressive ballistics, shot package and hand loaded perks on it. It's a joke now after the shot package perk was replaced with the useless "close and personal" one, a silly placeholder perk. Felwinters Lie was my second choice. Same thing happened to all six of them I owned. They became memories.

I think everyone and Bungie is telling you to try something new for once, shotgun is not the only specials in the game :)

Well, most of my kills were made by hand cannons. Check stats, it's easy.