I am a day 1 player (beta) and am 100% ok with it. I get why some are not but for me it's a relief. I am bored playing with the same weapon load out for all end game content. This forces me to change it up a bit. It's my opinion that Vanilla weapons where too op to begin with and it's hard to keep raising the bar. It's sad really that two DLCs later and people would still rather rock the vanilla weapons that alone says they were not balanced correctly and the only solution is to not continue to allow you to ascend them. For me I don't think I am a sheep I am just embracing the change and looking forward to new toys to enjoy Also year 1 weapons will still be useful for maybe 70% of the game (totally made that % up) at least all year 1 content so if you want to you can still use them just as you go now they just won't be as effective with TTK content.