Great post however i strongly believe you miss the actual reason why they are getting rid of year 1 weapons. In order to do that you need to look at wder picture. What did they announce in last month , Black Hammer , Icebreaker , Ghally will be nerfed with some other weapons. Now they are also nerfing the year 1 weapons because they believe VOG weapons are too powerful. The actual reason why Bungie is leaving year 1 weapons is not introducing new weapons. It is for introducing WEAKER weapons so that game playing time will artificially increase. They are lazy on creating content and instead they are giving you weaker guns so it will take longer time to kill boss's and complete the game. This is all an effort to increase game time , nothing further. They choose not to invest in content and yet still they choose to take away the content we earned in year 1. Lame as hell and one of the biggest corporate bullshit plans...