What a sad perspective to have. This is their exact point, things should be attainable for everyone, not just veterans of 20 years. With the surge of new players it’s unattractive to have stuff that they could only afford by playing for years. Imagine starting a new game and there‘s a bunch of items that aren’t obtainable anymore and everyone is flexing on you with these cool looking skins/minis. People that are against that are weird entitled beings with huge ego over pixels. Let others have fun too, it’s been 21 years lmao. Thank god they finally add unobtainable items 🙏🏼 praise 2weeks!
Sounds great until you think about it for more than 10 seconds. When everything is easily attainable to everyone what exactly are you playing for? Its fashion wars, the content is limited. Grinding hard as hell to get something to flex is basically the whole game. When everyone can have a OS Cry nobody will want one, bad non max mods/reqs are likely already going in to the merch or will be in the near future. The reason they were desired was because NOT everybody could have one. You had to invest serious time into the game in order to get one via any means because of fixed supply. You had to work really hard and long to get the reward. If you just wanted the skin inscri was there for you. Having things really hard to get is GOOD. Its things to work towards, its a challenge, its what keeps you playing the same 20+ year content over and over and over. Stopping really rare stuff being rare so that new players don't get salty that some guy who played for 50k hours over 20 years has more than them is obviously self defeating because that same new player now has less stuff to work towards. He wont play 50k hours for 20 years because he has to reason to now. He will put that once near priceless Krytan Axe in the bin because its now worthless. Nobody cares if you have one, nothing to flex. Scarcity is the only thing that gave it value, once removed its just a Hand Axe with a different name. All this applies to everything else they have messed with: Asian minis and Pre (what a giant shitshow
). Everyone gets a Panda YAY!!! ........oh wait no one gives a fuck now because the pet itself wasnt THAT cool, you only wanted it because it was VERY hard to get.
"With the surge of new players it’s unattractive to have stuff that they could only afford by playing for years"
^ Take the solution to this to its end point. Everything that was prenerf is removed or now postnerf. Everybody has basically the same attainable weapons, armor and mini pets as nothing is fixed supply. Drastically less people play for years because nothing is really special and grinding another 100hr to get something everybody else has / will have doesn't seem very appealing. You have removed one of the main incentives to keep playing. Lots of old players who kept the game going all those years leave because they kept getting screwed by updates to keep new mobile players happy (who were never going to play long term anyway). Sounds great 
FYI: I never owned anything that has been changed by updates so I havn't been effected myself. Although I expect to be soon, hope it makes those new players happy 