None of what you say invalidates the annoyance people are feeling.... Many of us spent ages gathering materials and farming bounties to level up our exotics. No matter how quickly or slowly we achieved this it was done with our effort and time. We worked toward something and the result is the introduction of a mechanic that not only takes away the fruits of our work, but is actually charging us to do so. It has nothing to do with them becoming "antiques". We have all played enough games to know these types of changes need to be handled with a careful trade off. When skill trees are changed, we are refunded our earnt points, not charged to start over again. Since day one, Bungies PR strategy has been to ignore criticism with the theme "But look at all the people playing", "look how many and how long" With new DLC ready to drop that contains a few bounties, 3 new story missions, raid and a pvp map, they knew it wasn't going to cut it. So they have chosen to force the most time consuming aspects on us all over again. I'm looking forward to new content as much as the next guy, just sick of the ongoing habit of painstakingly fleshing out what little there is for as much grind value as possible instead of content.