I understand the points of view bungie is proposing but I also feel there could be more creative ways around it. I feel like they did this to the exotics because the new upcoming content was too easily doable with them in their current state. That feels kind of lazy to me. A creative way I thought about was that we leave whisper as it is now and then we have to do this other strike and essentially sacrifice whisper in place of something else that's less powerful because the mission calls for it or going into the new raid you have to use whisper as a key to access it so we no longer are able to use it whisper in that raid. Make it so the story calls for these things rather than just giving us all this cool stuff and cool abilities and then taking it away just because.