Bungie have made the terrible choice as follows:
With the launch of Warmind when they introduced collections, if you had the shader in inventory it was added to collections. If it was only applied to items, it was not added to collections. Pretty much feels like the middle finger from my point of view (but I was not around at the time so no idea if and how they communicated that)
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They mentioned it in 1-2 TWABs [Quote] What items from Year 1 inventory will Collections track? Collections include any weapon, armor piece, Ghost, ship, Sparrow, emblem, or shader available in Year 1 of Destiny 2. Is there anything I can dismantle before Forsaken launches? If you have an item in your inventory right now, you can safely discard it and retrieve it from Collections in September. This does not include consumables, so hang on to those if they matter to you. If I dismantled something previously, will it be waiting in my Collections this September? Your Collection will begin with every piece of gear that you were holding in inventory or within your vault upon the launch of Warmind. If you had dismantled an item prior to May 8, it will not be available within your Collections. [/Quote] https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46981 Other sites like polygon also ran articles. I don't believe they did any in game notifications at the time