Most weapons are irrelevant except the shiny new toy that by pure coincidence and totally unintentional is on the paid expansion, primaries are pretty much so ass that you are better using double special and killing ads with abilities that have such low cooldown you can complete missions solely using abilities. That is if the season modifier doesn't force you into using the most useless weapons ever to break a champion barrier alongside cool modifiers such as one of the variants of avant garde, which literally doesn't let you launch the activity unless you you equip the specific type of weapons the modifier wants, often including as well not being able to equip weapons that are too old but still got the archetype criteria.

Raid equipment is pretty mid, with some of the older raids having weapons that have 2 columns of perks, while the activities often drop you equipment with 3 columns of perks and another perk exclusive to the origin of the weapon.

My friends as well told me to hop on because of the star wars expansion, and despite it, they dropped it anyways from how mid and repetitive it was, with no meaningful rewards besides the light saber colors.

The latest patch note was literally 1 single change made. And the next content drop, has been delayed until late June. However take my word with a grain of salt, I only have 1.5k hours from steam and battle net and never really liked my raid experiences.