Only I haven't had a whole year. The loot drop system means I'm still grinding for stuff, 1500 hours in, 50 raid completions and at least as many again partial completions to the exotic drop stages. I'm likely to get some of this stuff after it's irrelevant. If I were to play an MMO and start a new character, I'd expect that I could use my previous character's old "best gear" until I reached a high enough level to use the new stuff. But not here. Old stuff just becomes junk on release date, if you buy the expansion or not, if you're level 1 or level 20 or level 34.