I agree with your overall point, including some of the specifics. But to play devil's advocate, Destiny has not reduced the amount of weapons with every expansion. VOG weapons were still relevant for CE and as we know, HoW has an upgrade path using etheric light. In fact, the opposite is true. Destiny has added many more weapons over the course of year one. CE and HoW actually added many new weapons which is one major reason why vault space is so problematic. The only weapons removed were purple vendor weapons which were replaced by similar class weapons. However, to further support your argument, it's worth mentioning that both the taken king and weapons 2.0 are counterproductive to diving into the current grind. If even my raid purples are going to lose value, why grind strikes, nightfalls, raids and POE? On the PvP side, a crappy PvPer such as me is virtually obligated to use thorn or TLW in trials....then again, why bother with the lighthouse? Is a summoner adept going to wreck in pve after sept 15th? Nope...can't upgrade it. Basically, I'm feeling like the time investment for any decent non-exotic is completely worthless, given that I only have one month to feel good about my reward. Not sure what a good solution might be, but I'm really not appreciating the way this transition is being handled.