Simple. TTK is coming out. If they don't nerd the weapons out now then just like fatebringer and many other weapons then those would b the only weapons used. The dark below came out. Most people still used fatebringer. Was heavily compared to woc. And it won. How comes out and it still reigned supreme in the hand Cannon category. Crucible wise the only thing new people r using is the shot guns and the abundance of rocket launchers that can get grenades and horseshoes. But that's only because of the introduction of re rolling everything. But truth still is the best. Basically they realized that everyone is still using all the vanilla weapons those r amongst the best in class and they r coming up with a shit ton of new weapons and instead of giving perks and weapon stats that r better then the og they will just make the og weaker for a moment of time. I'm sure they will re introduce the ascension of items again. Otherwise what am I going to do with all my etheric light?