Revacon

Regardless it required you to actually think and be careful to use them, and since the only real hallmarks of a weapon's strength, are how fast it can clear enemies: KPM, and how easily it can be used,(coughafkcough) and the aoe weapons were definitely not that. any weapon requiring skill in this game is by extension garbage: why would I use a shovel when I have an automatic drill?

the reason is actually because of a very specific event. The Catchmoon on release in combination with Rivens is probably the strongest weapon (in comparison to all other weapons at any given time) we have ever had, it was better than EVERYTHING, and by extension had a higher than 50% usage rate, while at the same time allowing us faster clear speeds than ever before. Since DE only cares about usage rates and clear speed (along with player opinion to a lesser degree) this literally broke them and they went crazy nerfing several things, including dumping the catch moon into the abyss and also nerfing starting riven dispo to 0.5 due to the fact they monitor all trades and where seeing several people spending $1000 plus dollars of platinum on Catchmoon Rivens, (because back then without weapon arcanes, galvanized mods, or the buffed corrupted crit mods, Rivens were much more important, and Catchmoon felt amazing (remember this was back when self-damage was a thing, so most aoe weapons were unusable.)

I have both of the legendary ones, they work as expected, the melee duplicator only works for yellow crits Feels bad cause I've done the math and its gonna take someone 2+ years to get enough for 1 max rank one.

Me watching with my 0.6 dispo acceltra as every other player on the squad outperforms me with several different incarnons all with more then double my riven dispo(they aren't even using rivens), BecAuSE BaLeNce. What's even worse is I know DE would sink every incarnon dispo straight to 0.5 and keep them there if they didn't gaslight themselves into being cowards, only nerfing when they think they can get away with it. (Pls revert starting riven dispos to 1 if your going to let the best weapons in the game sit at above 1 forever, I want to have fun with the acceltra prime).

a vestige of when DE "fixed" railjack for sisters of parvos, truly a reason why OP should be scared DE has a horrible track record with reworking old systems. At this point, I think they only know how to make content islands and nothing else.