The entire new engram system is just one of the many convulted ideas each expansion. There's already significant to do in the game. How hard would it be to just bring the umbrella and gram to every vendor. But no they have to add eight steps for one easy step! It's like they never learn the simplest concepts. Gear caps ascendant cores the list goes on and on but they never seem to get the big picture. It would be nice if they just said hey we simplified a few things and here's one new system to learn at this point. Just my two cents
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Bungie has a history of making thing needlessly complicated & massively convoluted for the sake of keeping you logged in longer. Their re-invent the wheel approach to development means that even something as simple as weapon crafting was way over complicated on WQ release. There's a simple way to do things & then theirs the Bungie way of doing things. Perhaps the sale to Sony wasn't about strategic partnerships, but more to do with a studio on the decline & needing a massive cash injection to keep it afloat.