True, but adjusting other areas of the core economy can lead to players having more cores available when an infusion situation arises. Masterworking a low level weapon takes what, 20 cores? If you can half that by adjusting the process of leveling a weapon, those 3 cores for infusion are suddenly not as big of a deal. The end game here is that Bungie seems pretty firmly set on cores being a thing in infusion and remaining rare-ish. The best work-around to their position is is finding ways to have more cores without diminishing their desired perception of rarity.