These 2 guys have a terribly flawed concept of balance. They can't even properly balance anything. Whenever they "tweak" something, be it a weapon or a class, it gets COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
Weisnewski has shown the community he can't properly balance the game's weapons, there is always a "meta" for PvP because whenever he tunes weapons, one type always becomes useless and another becomes super overpowered, which everyone will proceed to use *cough* Thorn and shotguns *cough*
Merrill has already made a bad name for himself by completely obliterating the Sunbreaker subclass. While the subclass did in fact need to be toned down, Merrill took it too far and reduced the super to trash.
They need to be fired and replaced with people who grasp a better concept of balance, because Weisnewki and Merrill's concept of "balance" is "take something everyone likes and make it useless."
Edit: I'm not saying they should be fired from Bungie entirely, but they definitely shouldn't be part of the sandbox and balancing team.
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He reduced Hammer velocity by 1%, Reduced DR from 55% to 50% just like all the other supers and added a cooldown to the health regen, of which all other Regen abilities have (Save for Hungering blade), How did that in any way destroy it. all the changes are Miniscule Metas just Exist, Only way for there to be No meta is for all weapons to have the exact same stats, Its a sad reality (Although Metas are much more prevalent in destiny RN) They do need to make some changes though, all the balances are just focused on PvP, Not PvE at all