Deluded. That's the nature of looter-shooter. You grind for loot. No loot, no grind. Reduced loot, reduced value in grinding. Basic. No one mentioned 'forever' rather the lifecycle of the game, currently stated as having 3 year support. To reduce it is incompatible with the high levels of grind. This is the same with all looters, if you are set up to grind like a beast it's on the understanding you get to keep that item. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. Any retroactive reneging on that and making foundational world-rules paradigm shifts after player investment is already significantly made is a fundamental breaking of player trust. Catastrophic, irreparable. It's was a deleting of our characters. They don't 'have' to expire the loot at all, they CHOSE to. Nor did they supply replacement content to rebalance the books. Other looters have significantly less weapon variation to the 10,000+ single weapon variations possible in Destiny. Or they are set up to merely chase power levels via disposable loot, where the loot is plentiful and easily replaceable. Not so in Destiny. Not so for godrolled 10k variant weapons. They know this so that's why the game is moved to cheap, slot-machine giveaways to try to make up for its rapid expiry. It's a different crappy game and it doesn't work for a looter like Destiny. New light folks not yet bored of the same old content are fine as are those with no interest in min-maxxing builds via loot. A party game and a dull one for veterans.