Nothing can be better. Lateral or worse. It’s the irrational fear of power creep that people have. Every season the new weapons should be a percentage stronger than the last season. 15% across the board for EoF. Then 15% more for renegades. Quit shielding old content from getting blitzed like it should. This would open up old content to a lot of people too. That’s an incentive to get new gear. Design new content around the new power. Old gear will still be functional for a bit, (a lot of us ignore current activity surges and make it through all the same) but people will eventually find something they like more that can replace it. It would also free up Bungie staff to work on something more entertaining than balancing old stuff a lot of us don’t play anymore.

Many people’s issues are not that the new stuff is gonna be better, it’s that we are essentially being reset

No. I won't want to grind for hours for something that won't be good anymore in a few months. You can make new guns desirable without resorting to overt powercreep. Make them different, not better.

It's like when a kid says they want to eat their favorite dessert for every meal for the rest of their life. They think they know what they want, but it's only because they're not smart enough to realize how ridiculous they're being.

Agree with what you’re saying. I think the initial backlash is the fact that it’s a hard reset…with planned future hard resets. The pickle I think they are in is keeping the existing player base happy while catering to get new players in. With a game this complex, it’s a tall order. So yeah….they want new guns….but don’t want to give up all they grinded for.