It's not that of a weak argument actually. If I can do more damage/be more effective with an elemental primary, what's the point of using any other primary then in PvE?? Why should I make things more complicated than they are? Using anything different would be illogical. Easy solution: turn all primaries into elemental guns! No. Because, what's the point of enemies having shields then? The game was way to easy and the designers obviously wanted it a bit more challenging. And they had no other alternative I guess. Year 1's meta in terms of primary weapon elemental designs in play with the enemies we fight was flawed in my eyes...and I can fully understand Bungies decision here. What we have now is a direction in which the game forces you to think (maybe twice) about what to bring into a fight since you can only have 2 elements at a time (not counting your subclass). And Destiny only has 3. So yes it actually brings diversity because people don't feel that they have to use a certain primary weapon in their primary slot. Sure, no one forced you to use them but again, it's a human thing to think in the other direction. It's something you "can't take out" from players heads or even the game itself, you know. We all adapted to these changes and tbh it was for the good of the game and the steady challenge it wants to provide with certain activities. In a loot-FPS with tons of weapons I see no reason why a specific loadout/gun should be the answer to all questions.

No it doesn't. As the number of people clearly suggest we are still using the same few guns but without burns.

I think the point he's trying to make is that you would never have even thought to use the primary you use now if elemental primaries still existed. When fate bringer and voc were viable you didn't even give any other primary a chance simply because they had no burn. There were many year one primaries with better stats than the raid weapons but many people over looked them because of one thing no element. If you think not answer me this question would you use a treads upon a stars over Voc if they had the similar rolls? Prolly not because the treads doesn't have solar burn. Would you use an imago loop over a fate bringer when both are rolled the exact same? No because imago has no burn. Would you even consider the god rolled hung if Voc was still viable? Yes while everyone has a go to primary right now it's not all the same primary. I'll see someone running hung jury, I'll see someone running Byronic hero, another running hawksaw, there's more variety across the board. Unlike year one when I can go through my friends list predict there load out and 90% of the time I would be correct. The only real way to fix the elemental primary issue is to add an item that will put a burn on a primary.

Yeah but the argument is that elemental primaries are making the rest of the armory trivial. OK fine I'll play ball with that but now without the possibility of getting those in the raid they've in turn made what was supposed to be the biggest end game activity trivial. Raid weapons suck now. And by being able to get max light without a raid just who cares. I used to run vog all the time trying to collect them all and now its like who needs kings fall.