Sure, you guys like to say the community likes to comment on an update before even trying it, and I'll test to see if it's as bad as it sounds, but if that wording is accurate, then the words I have for it are:
"You try to hype up blast with the Nightwave aesthetic, you try to hype up blast with Gauss prime, you try to hype up blast with talking specifically about it with the Alchemy game mode, you make a trend of sprucing up the less-visited elements lately (Corrosive, Cold, Puncture, Impact, and even Magnetic), you release a high-investment item that gives blast the tiniest of fringe applications at the cost of far more effective options - as a tradeoff of damage for an aspect of "active cover fire" - only to axe it first thing this year by tying it down to shield recharge delay. Nice."
Edit: Yeah it's exactly as bad as it sounds. Topaz shards are now dead content.