I understand where you are coming from, but I think the option should still be there. When TTK came out, I was using gear from the original game, TDB, and HoW. Certain pieces had perks that were better than others. I used the gear that went best with my playing style. True I didn't use all the new gear, but when you have stuff that sucks, what is the incentive for me to use it? Then there was gear newer gear that I thought was awesome. The HoW scout rifle was incredible. I used the h*ll out of that weapon. Now from TTK I love dead orbits Hung Jury SR-4. I like it better than the HoW scout. If I had the option to use the HoW scout in certain situations, I would totally use it, but because it is effectively useless, I won't use it. One thing they could do to make it more time consuming to get this stuff back, is to up the old raid levels and up the prison of elders so we could earn this gear again.