I’d be surprised if it being seemingly permanent was intentional. More likely an unintended bug that you can’t dismantle it or just acknowledge it to make it go away.
I can’t understand getting so offended that you take it as a personal slight. I’m sure it will get addressed and resolved soon.
I don't believe for one second this was unintentional or a bug.
This is intrusive advertising. This is weaponizing your game play to manipulate you into going to their store to increase traffic in the hopes of increasing sales.
I have no problem with Bungie marketing their shirts in Eververse. Eververse is the in game store where they can sell stuff to you, the player. If they wanna put a T shirt ad in Eververse fine.
But they didn't, they chose to put this in our characters inventory. Why?
Eververse is for selling me crap and our inventory is for our character to interact with vendors in the game.
It's in my character's inventory but it's not something useable by my character. If it were a coupon that you bring to an in game vendor to get, say, a chest piece armor that looks like a t shirt, then that would belong in my inventory, but it's not. It's an ad from Bungie to the player to sell t shirts. So why is it in my inventory?
It's in my inventory because if they put an ad on the Eververse page I could easily ignore it. Go to Eververse , see the ad, decide I don't want a t shirt, and leave Eververse and continue playing.
But instead they chose to put in a place that can't be ignored, they put it in my inventory to interfere with my game play. "I'ts just one spot, what's the big deal" some may say. If you've been playing Destiny for a while that is a big deal. Most of us have lots of items and with all the new items space is at a premium.
But it's not just that they chose to put it into my inventory they purposefully made it so it is NOT deleteable. They hijacked my inventory and are holding it ransom. When you hover over it the description leads you to believe that if you go to their store and redeem it you'll regain the use of the space they hijacked.
If Bungie wants to sell us something, put it in eververse
If it's something my character uses to interact in the game, put it in my inventory.
But this is intrusive advertising, "we're jamming up your inventory so go to Bungie.net to try and get your space back, and who knows, while you're there trying to regain the use of your inventory you might just see something you like and buy something, because if we put this in Eververse you're just going to ignore it"
Sleazy marketing BS
That makes more sense to me than "Oopsies, we forgot to program 'Press X to discard'"