I think I know a way around this. Raid elemental primaries should drop from hard mode and when we infuse them to lower weapons we like the element should carry over.
See what we have here ladies and gentlemen is a classic scrub. Scrub hobbies are wanting things that are idiotic and pointless to be put in a game, sucking dick at a game and beg the developers for any edge they can have, and making polls that only retards or other scrubs would sign. If you encounter a scrub please do the following: break the scrub down, show a sniper up his ass, and throw him into a pit of hungry cannibals. This is the only way to destroy a scrub completely. In fact I see a hater not too far away.
As nice as they were I understand why they did it. For the last year I used about 3 weapons in PvE tops. They make everything else obsolete. I'm all for having a couple exotics that can do it so at least that way you're sacrificing that slot. And to be honest I'm doing just fine without them.