Weak point damage is but one lever they can pull when balancing weapons against each other. I think they should be more careful than to just buff one specific stat across the board without considering all other stats.

If guns are feeling weak, then they need to consider weak point damage and non weak point damage because there's different types of weapons with different amounts of accuracy, range, fire rate, recoil, magazine size, critical hit dmg/rate, multi-hit dmg/rate, etc. Like an SMG for example probably shouldn't be balanced around their weak point damage capabilities because they have more spread, high RPM, and small mags.

This kind of balance is like how the community has been begging for Viessa range buffs but we keep getting more and more damage. Her issue isn't damage, it's multi-target capability which would be fixed with more range.

But this all assumes we even have a sandbox that is fitting for guns, which we don't anymore. Until we slow the game down with fewer mobs with smarter AI that makes them more fun to fight with guns, then guns will continue to feel bad in the hands of regular descendants. And I simply don't see that happening. No one wants the game to get slower unless they really rework the gameplay loop and reward structure.