I can’t wait to see the baby rage from people when I say this, because people have 0 critical thinking skills and cry at the mention of sunsetting but… The problem sunsetting tried to solve still exists and was temporarily relieved by sunsetting’s existence. Loot chase is reaching its limit in this game: the fact that we are already returning to pinnacle gear level weapons should very clearly indicate that. That the game has reached the same state as before sunsetting is not a hit against sunsetting as you claim it is, but rather a hit against the removal of it. How do you make new gear still desirable when you can stomp the entire game with just the craftable arsenal already in the game? Even if they do continue with insane power creep like what we’re seeing with the BRAVE weapons, will it even matter? Nothing in this game is hard enough to justify having anything better than what we already have and increases in difficulty/innovation to combat are far and few between. There are very few solutions to this problem and they all have their downsides and I don’t want to suggest sunsetting is the best solution for Destiny (Bungie does not release nearly enough gear for this to be sustainable and the nature of the game lends itself to forming deep connections with your favorite gear) but there is a reason why loot is not hitting the same as it used to: crafting combined with no sunsetting has led to people getting perfect arsenals that, sure can be marginally upgraded with new stuff after maybe a year, but why bother? I suspect Bungie may have some sort of trick up their sleeve as I doubt they’d make this big of a jump in power so quickly otherwise. However, some part of me thinks they may have just said f it and did this without a plan simply to bring people back.