It is no different with weapons. Instead of making the 90% of the junk weapons better it is easier to just nerf the good weapons into the ground. Like the kuva ogris, zarr and the bramma. But hey lets keep throwing harder critters out there and send hundreds and hundreds of them at you in a run. But lets rejoice they made the damage numbers so you can change the size of them. (cough)
There is only 3 chair ones I use because most are a waste. Eclipse, Nourish and the one that lets you auto hack even in sortie/archons. What can I say I don't enjoy hacking consoles.