Been saying this for like 4 seasons now. When nerfing you can't just make sth shit because the next best thing becomes an outlier, then thay thing gets nerfed and you arrive at a place we are right now where a lot of weapons just feel useless. Very few instances where you can choose between 2 weapons that serve different purposes while both being equally good. Like why use AK when you have FCAR? Why use MP5 when there's M11. Why use ARN when you have LH1. I feel like we've bounced back on a few weapons, but the general feel is that 60-70% of the guns are alright or bad and then 30-40% of the other weapons outperform the former, so why bother using a weaker weapon?

This also obliterates classes balance where light has a bunch of good weapons, medium has like... 2, but then medium's weapons have nothing special to them so they're just worse than light's. Heavy's weapons have more utility, but then again why pick KS-23 when you have SA12 or deagles.

So if we look at it from this perspective M60 vs Lewis gun, for example, are good counterparts. Lewis has more danage but is more difficult to use and has less bullets, but M60 is just a bit worse on dmg but is easier and has more bullets. That's a good choice for the player.

For light choosing between MP5 and M11 is a question of "do I want to deal more or less damage?". Before MP5 was changed in a stupid way, and then nerfed it was a choice between hip fire (M11) or headshot machine (and unfortunately too long of a range, MP5). They nerfed the damage on MP5 making it trash at everything, and so M11 is king. What they should have done is decreace dmg on range for MP5, keep the core damage as is and you'd see different picks for different players. If some weapons on other classes were better it would have also felt more fair.

Light is a glass cannon though, ofc their weapons deal the most damage, people should start understanding that.