By simply increasing the power level of older gear that would allow them to do less because even if everything new flops bungie will have something to fall back on. And as critical as this community is they wouldn't get away with repeatedly reskinning and retweaking weapons. They've put themselves in a situation where they have no choice but to deliver and I don't know about you but I feel that's great for the game because they'll have to continually improve and raise the bar. Not just tell us to play this mode to get this item to let you use the same gear you beat every other boss with to beat this boss.