Better guns are frikking boring. A few variations on the theme won't hurt, but look at the lists we already have versus what's actually used most of the time.
[applause]
That's why there's a lot of new equipment and units in my AU, but only 3 (or 4) new weapons.
[edit;
7!?! Ok, at least 4 of them are just derivitives. But no more.]