ive done alot of reading on how sunsetting is a bad thing and there is no hope for destiny 2 anymore. and where i agree that it isnt very nice of bungie to not say a word about sunsetting when they see how loud the forums and social media is over the situation. i think there is a bigger picture that people may be over looking, when i see what we are losing in terms of content and weapons i immediately think it looks like a soft reset for D2. D3 was rumored to be coming out in late 2020 anyways, if that was true they may just look at D2 as a FTP game with a slate they can wipe clean to tell the best story without giving your character a life cycle.
you would otherwise lose all your ships, sparrows, ghosts, armor (that you can transmog in the future), your triumphs and im sure theres is a couple of more. people are looking at "futureproofing" as a bad thing, i see it as D2 resetting and bungie letting you prepare some weapons before that happens. we are losing like half of the planets, and in my collections i can only see 81 guns that are able to be leveled past 1060, there is roughly 400ish guns total. it will look closer to a new game in september than it does currently. now i understand that there is a good chance that bungie will mess it up like they always do, but i like to think since they left activision they are 1-0, making it FTP bringing in more people and opening up the free content for new players, and with any luck they are staying quiet because its a big update and they are afraid to say too much this far out.
or im completely wrong bungie lost all idea and we will be mildly unhappy for 3 months until they admit they screwed up, and dedicate the next season pass content to fix it.