With the raid weapons in year 1, were they powerful, yes they were. Were they the only option of guns to use, not by a long shot. There were so many other powerful guns then just the raid weapons. And will they continue the Year 1 stories in Destiny 2? You won't know until they release Destiny 2 and who knows they might do what they did with Destiny 1 and scrap the story and remake it 2 weeks before the release date. You do realize that the major flaws with Destiny 1 was Bungie's own fault right, they scraped what was a complete story and put in a crap story that left a lot of holes and unanswered questions in it. And if they don't learn from their mistakes then they will lose even more people then they have already lost.