Tiered system was an attempt to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. It was change for the sake of change to create a new chase. The tiered gear does not allow me to do anything that I couldn’t already do. Once I obtained T5 armor most of my cooldown were relatively the same. The set bonuses are nice, but are not game changing. I have T5 god rolls of all the weapons, but still use my crafted weapons. The tiered system was a waste of development resources to placate addicts. The people who were playing are still playing unless they were too irritated by being forced to run on the hamster wheel again. They people who weren’t playing, aren’t likely to have started because of the new system. And, before anyone wants to be clever I’m sure there are people who are exceptions to what I said. Edit. Destiny has been a “pig” for years now. Bungie lost the plot the moment they stopped making strikes for the game and started to recycle story missions to reuse as strikes, and replacing cutscenes with phone calls …. All down hill from there. Now we know it was because Bungie was systematically diverting resources to other projects while trying to do the minimum for Destiny.