Here's the fix: Keep all of the old raids at the Year 1 levels for newbies. Add a harder mode with higher level loot drops of the old raid weapons and armor for the OGs.
I can't wrap my head around the decision to make the best parts of the game irrelevant to the majority of their player base. Yes, VoG is crazy fun, but I'm not spending time walking a Kinderguardian through an old raid for neither of us to get relevant gear.
Understand what drives the player base to play and cater to that.
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Way too much to grind every week, if old stuff was relevant again.