I wouldn't joke about it because Bungie is known for doing stupid things like that. In D1 they were nerfing so many things a joke went around for a bit about them nerfing spent. Guess what happen?🤦♂️
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised at this point, hell its almost a meme of them removing things just to sell them back to us in a new year/.0 version.
[spoiler]End of 2021: We're removing light based subclasses because we feel they aren't ip defining anymore. [/spoiler]