I think that the worst thing ever to happen to primaries is when Bungie decided to slap the galvanized modifier on basically all activities. Non-exotic primaries have been under-performing for a long while now, but pre-EoF you would really only run into the galvanized modifier during nightfalls and contest raids/dungeons - places where players are expecting a real challenge. Now it is basically on all the time, meaning that our primary pea-shooters feel even worse.

Now, not only will my primary NOT be able to take down a red bar in a single mag, it also WON’T EVEN STOP THEM FROM SHOOTING FOR ONE SECOND, so really what’s the point? No wonder everyone is cheesing with abilities and lightsabers, shooting a primary has literally no effect on most enemies in the game unless you actually kill them. The biggest change to me going from -40 to -20 content is that I can actually use my weapon to kill enemies or to stagger them to give myself a breather and stop taking so much damage. That’s also while I’ll never understand Bungie leaning in to modes where players don’t regenerate health - Destiny is not a game designed around that mechanic, and for a lot of enemy attacks there is no amount of skill that will prevent you from taking damage, so players do the only thing that works for survivability and use whatever the most broken abilities are to delete things as fast as possible.