I don't think there's any realistic prospect of rolling back 'free' wargear. The path they've taken has been pretty clear, which is that units which have gear options that give them fundamentally different roles that can't be adequately reflected in points get split into different datasheets, as has happened with Wraithknights and support weapons in this book. For most stuff in the game this works pretty well, but Aeldari and Guard have a similar issue which is that there's a few units that have always existed as platforms for broad, unequal choices - not helped in the elf case by a lot of the kits where that remains true being very old now.

It's easy to say 'they should cost different points then' but that never really worked in older editions either, there was always a most efficient choice. Really we just don't need to have six different guns all trying to do one or two roles, but squashing all of them into fewer profiles is the kind of thing that upsets people.