In an ideal world, we'd have long range scopes for your primary, and then an offset short range optic or iron sights, with the ability to toggle between them by pressing the altfire button (holding reload). This would allow them to be a much more versitile weapon. Since bungie is apparently repulsed by the game living up to its potential, that won't be happening. But being able to choose your optic would definitely fix some problems with the weapon type. Every scout rifle is now fixed for either relatively close range engagements with holo or iron sight optics, or longer ranges with scopes. As a result they are outocmpeted by literally every weapon in the game at close range, and are outcompeted by snipers/bows and generally outflinched by most other weapons at long range. And PVE there is this one kid who is absolutely convinced that legendary scout rifles are a god tier s rank weapon against all evidence, but that kid aside if you are going to use a scout rifle at all it better be an exotic one because you're gonna need the small but scientifically measurable damage bump.... Which kinda means legendary scouts might as well not even exist at this point in the game.