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.