Can someone give me an explanation of the gauss nerf?

I see a lot of complaints about the gauss nerf but I'm not buying it.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I watched some video of me using the shotgun from 10 days ago and it's taking the same amount of shots to kill stuff today though the numbers are a little different. I'm still one-tapping superdicks at west tek.

Turtle reviewed the change and how it affected the minigun a few weeks ago and it was super stronk, so unless something changed with that; the mini, pistol, and shotgun are either "fine" or "good"

What am I overlooking, wasteland bros? Is the rifle dragging everything else down?