I agree with you that this comment should have never been made if they weren't going to roll every gun/armor forward until the end of time. However, having said that if you think about it that's not really realistic and if you look at other similar games, mainly MMOs like WoW (not that I m calling Destiny a flat out MMO even though it should go more in that direction), every time there is a big expansion with new content which includes a raid and level increases the old gear becomes obsolete and just memorabilia. So they aren't doing anything new by leaving old gear behind in this type of game. Where Bungie messed up is, when they left old gear behind, mainly year 1 gear, they didn't make viable replacements the further along they went AND the content got easier and easier. These 2 things made new gear seem less and less appealing. For example, Crota's End raid gear was pretty good, Black Hammer, Word of Crota, Oversoul Edict, etc. At least they kept elemental damage on primaries and this gear was useful when they dropped House of Wolves. But they failed with TTK and Black Spindle and Touch of Malice only felt important in a few situations. I only pulled Touch of Malice out of the vault for 2 specific boss fights. I also hold Found Verdict as the standard and subconsciously compare every shotgun to it. I miss Fatebringer so I use Image loop all the time but it's not quite the same. Black Spindle was their "replacement" for Icebreaker and Black Hammer, but the content wasn't wasn't hard enough or there weren't enough situations to make it feel as powerful as Icebreaker. Add to it the fact that since year one it is so easy to get the best gear that everyone has everything and nothing seems powerful or rare. How many times did we use to run VoG praying for a Vex, or Fatebringer, and how many people were still trying to get their first Gjallarhorn to drop even when we were doing the Crota raid? These days exotics fall in your lap on a daily basis especially with the use of 3 of Coins, and you can easily get your hands on pretty much any gun in the game with little effort.