" elemental primaries made the game too easy" oh like how some subclasses are suprisingly superior to others in PVE AND PVP? Like how meta weapons are always used in crucible and if you don't use them you'll pretty much get dominated ? PVE is pve you don't have to use anything. People just require shit for pure convenience mainly to do more DPS. As far is crucible is concerned thats up to the meta , but regardless people will always have requirements , and some guns will always outperform all the others regardless . Elemental primaries only shined in one activity and thats nightfalls , all they do is remove shields faster from enemies without the burn active thats it , its the perks that out shinned other weapons . and bungie leaves them behind because what ? "everyone " used them? Oh like the same eay everyone used the vex ? Suros ? Thorn? Last word ? Gjallarhorn? Dark drinker ? Spindle ? Malice ? Hawksaw? Mida ? Messanger ? Clever dragon? Metador ? Felwintets lie ? 1,000 yard stare when they were all in their prime state. Yet majority of those guns still exist All nerfed though, only things that were scrapped all together was year 1 weapons ( raid , prison, trials , banner ) yet they bring back a good portion ( vendor weapons ) Including some Of the most o.p , some guns from year 1 stiill shining most o.p ( metador , longbow , ghallarhorn, last word . As of now every weapon that was an endgame reward from the raid , trials , banner , even prison are scrapped and because of elemtal primaries ? Because people required it on LFG? Meanwhile in destiny ms current state if you still don't have ghallarhorn , exotic swords and many god rolled weapons you are excluded from groups to this day . So the whole logic of removing elemental primaries and reforging was only made to increase playtime and artificial difficulty, not because they were superior. If a gun is truly outperforming that leads to a nerf , not for the gun to be scrapped completely. Because bungie has the ability to change all and any perk on any gun and the way they work, they can easily bring back all the content that was scrapped but chose not to . The same way they chose to bring majority of it back , but not all .