I read it as them trying to make the Kinetic and Energy slots unique, instead of the Energy slot being "Kinetic slot, but with elemental damage"...

Changing the whole weapon system back to D1 days so late into development (we're talking about a major gameplay change halfway through the game's life) is one of gaming development's biggest no-noes.

You'll never see any developer do such an underlying change halfway through a game's lifecycle. Those changes are always reserved for the sequels, when they can reset a lot of things and not annihilate a lot of players' "knowledge", if you will.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see D1's weapon system come back, but it's never gonna happen, especially so late in development... IF it were to happen, we would see it in February, latest. Not in Fall.

But the fact that they are adding a Ghost just so they can give us Raid perks instead of changing the current Raid loot to have Raid perks just shows how they aren't willing to change things that are already established, and it's understandable why. I would still prefer to get Raid Perks on the Raid loot as well as a new Raid Ghost.