As someone with enough time to play to have cores to spare (and the patience to wait for the same but higher drops so infusion only costs glimmer), the cores aren’t my issue. I get the current infusion system is to make the choice to infuse/masterwork a piece of gear meaningful. However, the current rewards for that are not worth the cost. Masterworking armor is no where near worth the small bonus you get. Guns are better due to the orb generation but even then, you end up having to wait for a god roll because you don’t get the same number of cores back if you find something better later. Infusing to reach max power? Nothing but a nuisance. There’s a 2-4 key pieces I’ll infuse as I go but not unless it’s at least a 10 pt increase. Most of the time I’ll just use what I get or wait til I get the same drop so I can infuse just for glimmer. I’d say keep the cores but change them back to masterwork cores and make them only for masterworking (not infusing) while increasing the masterwork bonus to actually make it worth doing. Make it so we feel like it was worth spending the cores and the time to make the piece of gear extra special