A lot of the new armor is genuinely great, they add a lot of utility to the different classes they are for (except Blight Ranger, that one is terrible).
But, by giving low-stat pieces of that armor as a reward for the Legendary Campaign, Bungie just makes it harder to get a good roll of the new armor.
In Seasons past, all one had to do to get the new Armor piece of the Season was hop into a Legend/ Master Lost Sector. It was grindy and overall a bad experience, but eventually you'd claim the Exotic drop, and in my experience they've been decently rolled, with stats usually in the mid 60s
Now though, if you picked up the trash roll of the armor from the Campaign, if you want to get a decent roll of that armor piece, the only way to get it is through RNG. I've gotten several pieces of Exotic Armor to drop from the Lost Sectors, all of them being older pieces of gear I have no use for. Several repeats of said older gear as well.
Having the RNG weighted towards the new piece in Lost Sectors would be a nice QoL adjustment, or some way to try and earn an actually worthwhile piece of the Exotic Armor.
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So you could’ve chose the one you didn’t plan on using and got a better roll from lost sectors.
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In Seasons past, Exotic Armor wasn't locked behind Legend/Master Lost Sectors. You got a random roll drop in the wild or as a reward for completing the story. Was much better than this RNG crap.