I agree with your second point, but disagree with the first. Weapons in Destiny aren't nearly as personal as you'd think they'd be (except for exotics, which I assume are coming with us). You could hand me any legendary, and I could pick out 3 or 4 other guns that perform nearly identically to it, to the point where you wouldn't honestly be able to tell the difference if the weapon switched skins with the original. So while you're favorite gun may not be coming along, a re-skinned version of it will be. I'll admit this doesn't apply to all raid weapons (like Fatebringer or Black Hammer), but that's all the more reason why they [i]have[/i] to be phased out to prevent power creep.