Because it might be nerfed.
I stopped playing the game as often as I used to. I am still around, but not every night, and not every week. I just lost confidence in your weapons, Bungie.
It's a pretty bad thing in a shooter game when a player is unable to nurture its skills due to too frequent game mechanics changes made by a game developer.
Do not shoot yourself in a foot by doing things that reduce your customers base and do not hope your marketing team will cover your losses by winning the hearts of new gamers with another red bull or a similarly stupid campaign.
Stop nerfing our weapons, Bungie.
EDIT: removed Bait and Switch analogy.
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Agreed, I used to go on patrol to practice my sniping accuracy when I finally got a quickdraw sniper, and started getting dang good at quickscoping, but two weeks after I got that sniper they nerfed them into the ground. There's no point in getting skill in a game where eventually the mechanic that requires the skill will be removed.