Mk44 and Khepirs are in the same place in my mind, nonexistent

It's better than it's ever been, has been my favorite exotic since curse of osiris and even have an abayent/kephris and hoarfrost/kephris class items. It creates sunspots on HITS, one extra wave from a thermite nade can cause ignitions, and it perfectly feeds into its own activation regardless of solid solar or prismatic solar. A real butchering of an exotic through a rework would be helm of saint-14, not kephris

Ask yourself, why change the behavior of an exotic to be worse

This post is confusing. You’re mad that the Khepri’s Horn “still sucks” after the changes made to it. However, you are also mad that the exotic had changes made to it that are “unwarranted and unnecessary”? This within itself is contradictory. If Khepri’s Horn sucked (implied from “still sucks”), how are these changes, which only improved the functionality of it and left the old functionality essentially untouched, unwarranted and unnecessary? The functionality that was added, if I am not mistaken, is that solar final blows return a portion of barricade energy, the wave now splits into three waves, and targets hit are engulfed in a sunspot. This new functionality gives the exotic more uptime, more ad-clear potential, and more damage. Having used this updated exotic, I can say that the right build-crafting can make using this exotic both fun and potent in clearing enemies (except against grim, but those enemies suck anyway).