The early game needs to be better, but there are more sources. You have your character weeklies and Xur... vendor resets after the 1st. The kill counter still drops exotics every 4-5k kills based on enemy type. And maybe it's not available to ftp players... but Ikora has those new player quests. So, there are sources beyond LSs. Unlocks should be available everywhere... meaning if you get an exotic engram if you pull it natural it should have a chance to unlock exotics you don't have. Focusing... unlock focusing should cost more, but you should be able to unlock gear with Rahool if you're willing to spend the mats... Like for individual unlocks/focusing bring back the cipher requirement. For category focusing have it cost 3 shards per unlock until every exotic in each category has been unlocked. This is how you could fix it.