I honestly believe the choice of champion weapons this season was based on grandmaster NF. The previous season mods always had at least one mid to long range option. This season in able to tune grandmaster so players dont walk though it they needed to require the player to close the gap and confront champions in combat range. This is very easily done if Bungie ensures the mod choices are exclusively short range guns especially apparent for anti barrier this season. In the end though all these ended up doing was forcing the veterans to use eriana's vow. Lesson of this story grand master will be tuned to be difficult for new player because they are forced into combat while the older players just get to sit out side their range as we have done every season with erianas.