Bungie's announcement that it was undoing the 2020 mass weapon sunset that rendered a huge chunk of Destiny's arsenal obsolete was a surprise for everyone—including Bungie, to be honest. The decision seems to have been borne of engine limitation necessity rather than any long-term balance plan for the game.
Few Destiny players were tugging at their collars harder than longtime YouTuber Datto though—the video maker had a popular series where he'd show some tough love to fellow content creators and streamers, clearing out their limited vault space of weapons we had every reason to believe would never be relevant again. Turns out those videos were the Destiny equivalent of torching binders full of first run Pokémon cards.
