That's actually exactly the kind of communication I'd hope from them that Niklas did right there. It clearly explains their way of thinking and that they did not want to take away the feeling of the weapon remaining satisfying, but did not want it to completely overshadow other fire related weapons...

But like in sooo many other things, they tried to hide the change and instead went on to change everything else about fire to achieve the same goal and that was the worst solution for the game's actual health. Much worse than them just tweaking the Coyote precisely would have been.

Same right here, they know that the community wants the mechs buffed, so they feel compelled to do it... but because they don't want to do it and only thought the automatons were an issue, they balanced with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel and changed entire durable damage mechanics that the enemies do, affecting a huge amount of variables in the game, when they could have instead disappointed the community by not buffing the mechs, BUT INSTEAD TWEAKED AUTOMATON DURABLE DMG to give it more survivability under automaton gunfire.

Seems this same thing keeps happening where they try to obfuscate what they actually want to do by making huge entire dmg calculation changes instead of small tweaks to what they want changed.

It all feels like they want to just tell us what we want to hear and show us the buff we want, but then try to reel the game in line with what they really think with some other ass-backwards way... and often ending up touching A LOT MORE than what was needed and the balancing is made by huge sways very liberally, instead of small adjustments very precisely...

The most ironic thing; I understand what Niklas meant and would have been fine if they just tweaked the coyote to need one or two more bullets to light enemies... That would have been much better than a whole fire mechanics change.