Energy weapons are Elemental Primaries. There has never been an Elemental + Kinetic weapon in the history of Destiny

That’s where it gets confused. In D1 there was primary, special, and heavy weapons. They took those individual ammo types, and all had elemental types except kinetic weapons. All kinetic weapons used primary ammo, including exotics such as NLB and Uni. Elemental primaries used primary ammo. Now with D2, its been mixed up a little to be the kinetic, energy, and heavy slot. Individual weapons can take primary or special ammo yet be in the kinetic or energy slot. The big draw of Supercell was that it made your primary into an Arc type, so in D2 it would be in the kinetic slot. If they put it in the energy slot it just wouldn’t be as valuable as it was. Then there was Adept Raid Weapons and the like, that all replaced the first slot on your character with an elemental weapon. I’m saying that that is something that Bungie seems averse to doing again.

In D1 we had elemental primary's in Y1 of D2 these still existed but only in the Energy weapon slot. Then they added special weapons back into the game for those who preferred D1 set-up, so the Energy slot becomes Secondary and can contain elemental primary or special weapon A D2 version of Zhalo would be perfectly valid in the Energy slot. It would be as valuable as any other Exotic Primary that lives in the Secondary slot, there are already many in D2 I get that having 3 Arc weapons in an Arc Burn activity was more valuable in D1. But by definition a Kinetic weapon is a primary without an element so it makes no sense to talk of Elemental Kinetic weapons. In D2 the first slot is Kinetic only

It’s specifically an “Elemental Weapon in the Kinetic Slot.” It’s why I shortened it to “Elemental Kinetic”

Yeah understood but it's never going to happen in D2 because of the Energy slot