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I've always known it to be that Lasguns are the preferred weapon over autoguns due to logistics.

Instead of shipping a trillion magazines of hard ammunition a few times a day for your rank and file, you can ship a trillion rechargeable Lasgun magazines a few times a week.

So you're shipping less weight, less often and can still keep your grunts stocked up on ammo.

Also there's minimal moving parts, if any, in a Lasgun, and the fewer moving parts there are the less likely it is to outright break or fail in the field. You only really have to keep a Lasgun clean rather than clean, and oiled, and everything else that goes on with modern firearms care.

It's also far easier to train a soldier to use a gun that has minimal recoil, isn't affected by wind or gravity, and only needs cleaning.

Yeah, bolters are for breaking open a target with a single shot and making sure everyone around them knows about it.

It's a shock and awe type weapon for a shock and awe type soldier.