You can tell exactly why Bungie is going to lay off half the studio or more at this point. It's purely incompetence at the management level. There is no general direction for anything. There never was. On to our mostly final balance update for now anyway, and thank god they at least fixed most of the broken stuff before they dip out. PvP sat in a gutter around Beyond Light and some of the era after where it was nothing but slide shotgun and HC throughout the entirety of the game. Crucible numbers dropped to insanely low levels because of it. During TFS Crucible bit the dust again and was a literal hellscape of OP garbage, bugs, and glitches for months and months. The entire population crashed despite people liking the expansion. It never recovered. Prismatic was so awkward and OP for so long, among other things, that nobody had the time to wait around to see anything balanced. It took them ages to get autos, sidearms, pulse rifles, and other weapons back into the mix. Then they went on a crusade of eliminating special ammo and trying to minimize abilities for like a year. Then they suddenly stopped, and now special ammo is everywhere and ability spam is still a thing. Lowering it to 125% max probably at least made things doable I guess. Somehow while I was gone the criers and screamers got weapons like Devil's Ruin nerfed into the ground and changed because it was too strong against the poors using HC's and shotguns. I swear the top players in this game are literally direct connections to the devs. Whenever a single gun or frame starts to irritate the care bear HC crowd, it gets nerfed into the ground in the following months. Every. Single. Time. We have come full circle. I am content now. Enjoy your vacations, Bungie Management. Nobody will ever miss you.