They’ll update old content to the new system eventually, but given the glacial pace at which Bungie does anything (not fully their fault as the team is much smaller now due to layoffs) who knows when that will be.
I just think this new system should not have been introduced until it was game wide so people could play what they want and feel rewarded for it. And updating the old armour and weapons to the tier system should be a high priority for them.
Would love for them to hurry up and fix Rahool and his Tier-2 and Tier-3 focusing engrams. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to focus a 340 Exotic Engram into a specific piece of armor, only for him to return back a 200 level piece of offal.
This is what gets me. 800+ people and they couldn’t be bothered to make content for their only game, and instead they created a bunch of side projects to throw money directly into the trash.