The problem is that primary weapons all collectively suck. They need to buff primary weapons if they want anyone to use them. They aren't lethal enough to stop a shotgun ape before he can close the gap, and they don't do enough to contend with snipers at range. I would love to have a primary weapon meta, but at the same time I do NOT want to go back to anything like year 1 of this game. That was the most boring shit ever, and encouraged camping team shooting lame ass play. Year 1 with it's double primary system nearly killed this game, that is not the answer, neither is removing special ammo or reducing it. The answer is making primary weapons worth a damn. If we had lethal primary weapons you would see a lot less shotgun aping and way less lane camping with a sniper.

While I can't speak for the community at large, in my experience, I'm always trying to finish kills with my Special weapon as much as possible when starting a card for the first time that day. This is solely because of the existence of the elemental kills/elemental weapon kills bounty. Long explanation down below... [spoiler] None of my preferred Primaries are Energy weapons, and I'm not one to use an Auto Rifle or pre-nerf Hardlight(since you can swap to any element). Similarly, most of my best Special weapons are in the Energy slot, and I refuse to use Revoker. So depending on the daily/weekly bounties, I'll be using my Mindbender's/Beloved, Retold Tale, or Long Goodbye(there's no good Arc Shotguns I have) until they're done. I also primarily main Arc subclasses, so unless my teammates have subclasses or weapons matching the other damage types, my Special is the only thing making progress on those bounties. Afterwards, I just play normally, using whatever I think any given situation best calls for. Another example is one of the weekly Iron Banner bounties; the one that gives you more progress for Energy and Power/Heavy kills. It felt like my Primary saw as much usage as my Heavy last time that came around.[/spoiler]