No - your gear impacts your gamplay, but issues of gameplay are, for example, the range of a hand cannon. Gameplay issues are issues that DIRECTLY affect your playability. Another example of gameplay issues are if you get to a certain portion of the raid and it glitches you/locks you out - that directly affects your gameplay. Issues of loot are what your issues are grounded in. Your issue does not directly impact gameplay, it impacts what you use, ergo loot. By that idea EVERYTHING is an issue of gameplay since everything directly affects gameplay in some form or other.