Nobody is asking to upgrade the armor because it doesn't really do much. I think I may have used the wrong word when I said progressing. I should have said "moving on" or "evolving" simply because my view of progressing is probably different from that of the people I was talking about. The fact that you even mention not expecting it to be automatically 331 is proof of that because I consider that a given. I simply don't consider having to re-level up the gun "progressing". Semantics aside, if they were to allow this sort of upgrading then there would be less motivation to run new content. Also if a year from now, players are still using the same guns they are now, then that is horrible as players are suppose to evolve throughout a game like this. As it is, we get to keep using the same exotics if we choose to. But for it to carry over to legendary weapons is simply too much. I don't know if you've played any MMO's (which is what Destiny is trying to be in terms of the RPG elements) but old gear is often abandoned in those types of games.