First off, your math is a failure. It was an average of 2.5% depending on impact, how much did Nechrochasm get nerfed? How about Silimar's wrath? Since the patch I've played a decent amount with auto rifles, I upgraded my old monte carlo at Xur and have it almost totally leveled. It's fine, the range feels reasonable, the time to kill is on par especially when considering ease of use. Sadly your poll is invalid and while it's good to be passionate, you've gone to the point of not thinking evenly about this. Why is it invalid? For the same reason almost all polls are invalid. Most people who don't main an auto won't vote or their vote will be meaningless because they don't have enough experience or they just don't care, anyone who mains an auto is biased to have them as strong as possible. There will likely always be more auto users than any other gun type because they are easy, familiar and offer a way to change up play style. But the numbers indicated more than just that, they were still too good. They were the most viable option across all encounter ranges. You can't solve it by just giving a buff to everything because then everything is too strong, they have to bring everything to a median for DPS/TTK and make sure they fit the role they are designed for via stability/range. Try using all 4 weapon types at their intended ranges to run through some heroic stories, I know your heavily biased but you should be able to notice that autos don't fall behind unless you try to use them at range. It's just that you can't use them like a scout (for both range and damage) anymore and be as effective as a scout rifle.