To start this off this is just an educated assumption. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. From many interviews I have seen, they tell you they want you to make tough choices on what gear to keep. What gear represents your legend. 10 years with the same guns would be boring. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS. They can careless how you play the game. They care if you play and the ratings they get. It comes down to $$$. Every single space in our vaults uses up server space somewhere. The more vault space the more servers. It cost them more $$$. When you got millions of people playing your game even small additions to the vault and up to quite a large amount of space being taken up. That's why they want us to make difficult choices. We are only 1 year into a 10 year game and this will be the second vault space addition. They're not going to continue to keep adding space. It's not cost effective. At some point hard decision will be made. But they should not be making these decisions for us by forcing year 2 gear and making year one obsolete. The whole reason they're adding the exotic blue print kiosks is because it takes up less server space. The vault stores data for both the weapons you have and how far on each weapons tree you progressed. The kiosks just stores data on the weapons. The reason why you have to start over progression from anything you pull out of there. Which saves a ton of server space. My solution. Allow year 1 gear ascension. Let's us make the choices. Add kiosks for legendary gear. This way we can keep our endgame and special event gear we worked hard for. We would just have to relevel it up if we pull it out of there