Bloody hell @Godspeed , I think you needed to get that off your chest!
And @Diddums, you missed an over off 😂
I'll never understand the issue that some people have with recycling stuff in the way that Bungie do it. Every game that wants to be some form of a live service like this one has to reuse elements in everything. It's what every game does. If you break every game down to its basic points like shoot things, collect things, they all have it - I cant deny it that SkillUp explained it best. 'All games have that 30 second loop of the same shit. The better games take that loop and do stuff to make it feel like it's a different activity but it really isnt. Bungie imo do it the best but that doenst mean all content remains good.
The big problem is they keep making decisions with a quickly evolving community that just seem to ruin the experience for many, but for a period of time e.g. a season. By the time they've created an idea and pushed it into the game, some people want different shit. That's exactly what this season felt like. But that's a little derail from sunsetting.
Back to thread.
Every shooter has guns based on gun types - AR, SMG, Shotgun, etc. So new guns will always be recyclable to some degree. I could turn around and say all CoD only has 6 weapons as the others are boring variants because all you see is AR, SMG, etc, not the finer detail that makes a gun stand out like perks, decal, etc. The guns are there, it's how much you're willing to enjoy the core gameplay loop that I think it boils down to most of the time.