The 10 year plan including multiple DLC releases a year certainly was... Would you prefer for Iron Banner and the Nightfall be available for you to play against level 40s? Where the mobs will destroy you in one shot and you won't be able to dent them? Or where level 40 players will destroy you in a heartbeat? Nightfall and heroics were put in the game for players at max level to gain gear for end game... If you aren't max level you won't fair well in these modes... Like trying to run Crota 2 before reaching max level... Being nothing other than a hinderance to the raid team... Except now you'd be six levels below max... Even in previous dlc players couldn't play certain modes until they'd reached a certain level. The only difference now is that you can't reach max level. They were nice with the first two expansions allowing leveling for those who didn't buy them... But the level cap increase is a feature of the expansion... An expansion you chose not to purchase for whatever reason. Therefore you will not reach the level required for certain activities... Nightfall, Iron Banner, Heroics and Raids included in those activities.