Sols, I’ll throw a few questions back at you. 1). Can you buy 2 to 3 cores per day, every day, from Spider? 2). Does your unequipped and higher level gear, on your character or in your vault count towards your highest available overall power level? 3). Is masterworking any piece of gear supposed to be a daily activity? If the answers to those three are yes, yes and no respectively, then the following views are completely logical, and appropriate. 1). Cores are not rare like unicorns. Buying multiple per day is the exact opposite of that. 2). Progression is not impeded, at all. Only thing being hindered is our ability to wear/use what we like, aka personal preferences. If you MUST use the “collective’s” meta, I have no issue and completely understand those concerns, heck, I’ll even agree with you. But, In that case, Bungie gives you a minimum of 1 infusion Per Day. That’s putting one character’s entire loadout infused to max available power with personally preferred gear on, every reset. Just visit Spider, you don’t even have to fire a round, or enter any activity, those you like or dislike. 3). Either masterworked gear is supposed to be unique and rare, thus costly wrt a “meaningful choice” or they aren’t. Last thing, wrt the pitchforking community. I see the exact same ppl who demanded rng being pulled out of the core acquisition process currently complaining about being forced to do activities they “don’t like” in the season 7 changes. Ppl demanded rng be removed, got a positive step toward that end result, and are pitchforking now bc they don’t like the “new” non-rng requirements.