That was kind of the point of this latest hotfix. They wanted to force people to rely on primary weapons and open the door for sidearms to become the most useful special weapon. Make no mistakes about it, pretty much every consequence of this patch was intended. That is howa rotating meta works. Knock down the current meta soa new meta can rise. Sidearms only stand out because of their ability to always spawn with ammo. Special ammo for all other weapons needed to be nerfed to let sidearms stand out, and coincidentally, the players' demands thst something be done to force ppl away from special weapons coincides with the changes they made. Bungie only uses the stick (nerfs) to get the desired results though. They never use the carrot (buffs) to try to incentivize certain behavior like reliance on primaryweapons. Doing so would mean increasing average ttk for all primaries in general so they can compete with better with special weapons. They can't do that, this game must have slow ttks and be ultra-balanced so it can become an mlg-E-sport.