Just my opinion but as a player whos been with the game since beta its no shock that i have 28000 legendary shards just chilling in my inventory and while i never have to worry about anything that cost shards in the game as opposed to a newer light, its not without reason. I have played for 6 years. It makes sense that after working my butt off i can sit comfortably and to just fully remove shards with nothing to give in return and the only thing to buy without a daily purchase cap is raid banners is dumb. Allow those of us who have put in more hours in the game than to be proud of an equal exchange and dont just erase years of effort. (Edit) ive seen a lot of people debating the removal and ive just wanted to point something out. Currently in the game when you complete most activities you are rewarded glimmer and shards to some degree and sometimes cores ie: the 3 fundamental payments. Removing even 1 of these 3 raises the cost of the other 2 and shown in bungies chart ie: 5 engrams and 50000 glimmer to focus banner. There is no word on bungie on a glimmer cap increase and barely a word on engram drops and there is no word on glimmer drops rates. If there are no shards glimmer has to drop at a rate to take its place.