This whole thing of weapons rising over others came from the beginning of the game. Think about it, so in vanilla auto rifles were the king because they did the most damage and were the most reliable at killing enemies out of all the primaries. So bungie's way of reworking the gun meta was by buffing the other primaries ( pulses and HC, scouts will always be underused). But at the same time, auto rifles were nerfed to the ground completely to the point that up until the taken King were considered jokes. The problem that faces bungie isn't that there are new kings rising, it's that they keep nerfing them. Auto rifles did not need to be nerfed, other primaries only had to be buffed. That's it. Its really stupid how there's always a nerf else when one thing is being nerfed. Id say that if auto rifles weren't touched by this mega Nerf back in the dark below, then this trend of nerfing other things while buffing others wouldn't have happened.