Well considering that I'm almost caught up to you in power level after only two weeks of playing after a nearly eight month break and none of your guardians are light level 1000+, I'm gonna guess you don't actually know what you're talking about. You're the one who mentioned progress in your comment, yet it doesn't seem you're even played this game for half the hours I and other players have. To suggest that solo players have no issues obtaining pinnacle gear in the game at current versus the way it was before is ludicrous because it frankly isn't happening. The vast majority of solo players in this game have to make due with a mostly one guardian focussed power grind for powerful gear and perhaps a few pinnacle pieces a week. Before I left, you could successfully solo a powergrind of three guardians each week with a third of the playtime it takes now. The reason is because they changed the power grind into separate tiers, the highest of which are strictly unsoloable. The only soloable ones off the top of my head are the 100k Nightfall and Pit of Heresy. I think Gambit awards Tier 2, but not Pinnacle.