Sadly they can’t. Well maybe now they can. With bungie making some things +1 power that weren’t before. But otherwise we were being effectively skill walled into higher light levels. I’m speaking as a person whose favorite thing in the game is buildcrafting. Up until recently even that was HEAVILY restricted by punishing players for using anything but featured gear. Before ash and iron there were not a single legendary void or strand heavy weapon that was featured. Unless the epic raid adds a void heavy then it’s STILL not even possible to get one. My best build used to have to use a non featured shotgun because there was no shotgun at all regardless of element in the kinetic slot that was featured (until the last week with the event shotgun). Essentially the point is with how heavily Bungie was restricting us, and the fact that the average player has a potato for a brain, some things would be just awful for players who aren’t very good at buildcrafting. And trust me I see plenty. Most of the time I look at peeps im like ok you have 3 different element weapons which are different from your subclass, you aren’t on prismatic so that doesn’t even help, they have strange armor mod choices on, or just use what a YouTuber said was “OP” and suck with it. You know how many arc hunters I’ve seen with gifted conviction just get deleted because they play like a bot? DR hardly matters if you have 10 health stat, make no orbs, and don’t have any weapon that regenerates health! Idc if mint retrograde is “OP” you still died!