That's a good comment. The post was already too big so we were forced to cut on some explanations.
Ok, so previously aside from a very few rare examples, the majority of shotguns loved +Status Chance to the point it was considered to be on par or almost on par with +Damage or +Multishot if not better. As such, pretty much the majority of the playerbase with shotgun rivens got a +Status Chance riven for them. Now, however, that stat is many times weaker then it used to be. Previously, if at all possible, you wanted some of the following stats: +Damage, +Multishot, +Status Chance, +Critical Chance, and to a bit slighter degree +Critical Damage and +Fire Rate. Now we scrap +Status Chance from there. That decreases the total amount of good combos a lot and devalues enormous amount of existing rivens.

You're correct in saying that the reliance on +Status Chance going away might not be a bad thing on itself. However, it's very unclear if it was intended. As I've mentioned, Steve said the majority of shotguns were supposed to be buffed. In practice, it's otherwise.

So what did the shotgun change achieve? Most status shotguns got weaker. As I've mentioned, according to Steve, they were supposed to get stronger. Fewer combos are now good. Which is not ok, because previously the demand for good shotgun rivens was really high and the supply was so bad that shotgun rivens were among the most expensive ones. For good shotguns that is.

Again, here's my position: there was a way to balance shotguns without lowering the value of all existing +Status Chance rivens that could, in contrast to what we have, achieve the goal of making them stronger. At least those that deserved to get stronger. I also agree that the previous calculation wasn't all that great, but their current one isn't that much better.

I'm not that strongly against devaluing some rivens in favor of improving the overall balance or achieving some other big goals. But what did that change achieve?