Ok you are getting on my nerves. You know the problem with the current system is all the good weapons are locked to the highest level and the lvl of those weapons don't matter. Making progression based on this light value rather then your lvl is the problem with this loot based system. If you based the weapons off of lvl and the light was just power lvl and doesn't change then when you increased the lvl cap and add weapons for the higher lvls you will naturally switch to the new weapons and then people would be able to keep favorite weapons while not hindering the balance. Your being the one in the wrong for saying that dictating a person's play style by force is right. There have been many other games that have done this and shown how well it worked well. Bungie chose this way themselves so arguing that balancing the weapons is a nightmare is their fault and problem which should not be passed along to the player.