That's the developer being lousy and uncreative. Has nothing to do with gear ascension. I could easily imagine weapons that would make you interested and want to use them. Its not hard, Bungie just obviously sucks now at making video games.
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I could imagine all the weapons I could be using as well but I'm given the option to bring back the weapons that out class the new weapons. By the way Bungie aren't bad at making games now. They're going in the right direction.