You can still use sunset gear, just not all of them at once in pinnacle activities. You don't need to be max light all the time

Bungie would have been better off making weapons fall into four categories plus exotics. Grey weapons have 1 mod slot, green have 2, blue have 3 and legendary have 4. You have all the weapon types still but all perks become mods that either drop in world, can be bought from Banshee with mod components or require certain triumphs or in-game activities to obtain. You then have to 'unlock' the mod slots on a weapon using upgrade currency. Each slot being more costly in currencies than the last (a bit like armor is now). Weapon 'rarity' (color) dictates how often they drop in world or again, you could 'craft' them using currencies. I think the armor system works just fine as is. Just drop sunsetting on it. If this happened, there would be no need to sunset things. Once a mod is slotted into a frame, you cannot remove it and thus if you want a different combo you have to build another frame. This would also allow them to introduce new, desirable perks and frames and players might just enjoy grinding out what they want. You could even have the champion mods be available this way, one mod for each champion type that can be slotted in any weapon but only one champion mod per weapon. In fact, you could make this super simple. 1. Make all perks mods. 2. Give all mods a cost like armor mods 3. Give weapons 10 upgrade points like armor has to govern how many slot points you have and when masterworking occurs. 4. Have frames drop as outlined above (masterwork type is a mod as well, energy type is random and can be changed just like armor) 5. Provide methods for farming/obtaining mods. 6. Player slots a mod permanently into their weapon frame.

Sunsetting is kind of a “find a game that respects your time more” moment. Take warframe for example. No matter what weapon or character, you can take it with you forever. A lot of people have been using the same few guns for 9 years since the beta and players should be aloud to do that if they like those guns. They are not lesser than new weapons and nothing in the game sunsets your anything. Find a game like that. This system in destiny disrespects your time so much that it’s no wonder people are mass leaving the game since beyond light. We are experiencing one of the sharpest and largest player base fall offs in the history of destiny and this is why. People feel as their time is disrespected and amounts to nothing

But...but..how is bungie going to sell us the reskin of Not Forgotten called Probably Forgotten in the near future?

Why even bother acquiring new weapons or armor when it's just going to be trash in the next few months. You run out of vault space in like 10 minutes of playing and you can't pull random rolls from Collections. What a d0g$h1t design. Maybe just maybe redesign weapons so that once you discover a perk on a particular item you can then just slot it like we do armor. This notion of having 99999 copies of the same weapon destroys vault space and makes Collections irrelevant. The have intentionally overcomplicated each and every system to keep you spinning forever. Sunsetting is just lazy and gross. My balls fill with rage every single time I see some bootlicker try to defend it.

Hopefully Bungie wakes up and see how stupid the idea was. Literally all weapon variety as been stripped.

They have no talent and no resources dedicated to this game anymore. It's a shame. I bought BL and play because I need some social interaction during COVID and I enjoy playing with the boys...so we all knew what we were getting into, but the fact remains...this is a minimal viable product. Take it as such if you play. You dont go for God rolls, you go for good enough rolls and then move on. And please.... Stop. Buying. Silver.

So instead of just complaining...any idea on how Bungie could solve the solutions Sunsetting tried to fix without sunsetting?