Per the TWAB "Previously, you would earn this armor by leveling your Season Rank and unlocking new pieces on the Seasonal Track. Moving forward, Seasonal Armor will be earned from Seasonal activities. You'll also be able to guarantee pieces from these sets using Focused Umbral Engrams." Consistently the highest armor stats outside of really rare exotics came from season pass armor. Now that it's only going to be dropping in the wild get ready for lots of 48 gear that if you like the look of is useless but conveniently you can Transmog it. I see what you did there Bungie.