Interestingly enough I made a post about the same thing titled "I know I'm beating a dead horse..." It was barely received. Forums ruin games more than help them. Too many negative people.
Irony level over 9000.
People are complaining about the way Bungie has gone about it. They could have just added extra nodes to the gun/armor that would have taken just as much work to upgrade, but no, that would have made too much sense.
If you believe the community hasn't said anything similar, then you have some strong reading comprehension issues or a strong case of confirmation bias.
Probably safe to go with both.
Weapons are left behind (in WOW) when the game expands rather than offered as an upgrade. You have a favourite weapon, well tough, you have to bin it if you want to stay in top. At least in Destiny we get to bring them back up to par
If this was a post over there you would get trolled in to non existance. this way round, we have it pretty good