Looking at their time to kill (TTK), he argued they can still compete with the meta.
The AUG and M16 were the too extremely dominant weapons back in April 2021, but TrueGameData believes that players gave up on the weapons after the nerf. Nerfs have tamed these beasts, but Warzone stats expert TrueGameData has discovered that Burst Rifles are still extremely viable in the Season 6 meta. However, that changed with Black Ops Cold War’s integration, with the AUG and M16 being the only viable weapons for weeks. The FR 5.56 never made much of a splash, and burst-fire mods for Assault Rifles weren’t worth your time.
When Modern Warfare was the main Call of Duty title, Burst Rifles never quite made it into the meta.