You know how difficult it would be to buff every gun in every category just to keep up with the outliers. You address the concern, not just bend everything else around it. Power creep is a real thing that while us gamers don’t have to worry about it because it isn’t an immediate issue, it is something devs have to look at for the lifetime of a game. The real fix is to balance ahead of time to stay on top of these things but that is hard to do since all it takes is a day and a random asshole to bruteforce something and at that point you have things that are far from balanced.