I think a lot of the people who are against this are PC players on SSD's who just don't understand how awful the growth of Destiny 2 has been on Console players, especially those on PS4 which represents the largest group of the Destiny playerbase. Every patch on PS4 takes no joke hours to copy (I can download 4-5 full 30-50 GB games before a Destiny 2 patch loads). You will spend roughly 5 minutes just to get the game to load to the character selection screeen. It even takes 20-30 seconds for your menu items to populate now, and you can wait over a minute for a Crucible match to even try to find other people (and that's with removed SBMM now). It's kind of ballooned into a really awful experience just to play now. So for me, the removal of content is a great thing in that regard.
I do however wish Bungie would have done a better job explaining what is and isn't a part of the new DCV changes. The mention of Leviathan leaving seems strange, and also the announcement that only 3 Raids will exist, 1 of which will be the new Raid. The reason it's confusing to me is because they are keeping Nessus, which is the location for the Leviathan ship. My thought about keeping EDZ and Nessus, is that they cannot fully remove D2's base campaign, especially since that is how you unlock classes, it just wouldn't work. This means they are likely just cutting out certain story missions, and leaving much of what happens in the EDZ/Nessus parts of the story in. With the Cosmodrome D1 mission already being the start for New Light players, they will expand on the intro for New Light players and likely merge that into the new D2 base story. So as much as it sucks for players who purchased D2 almost 3 years ago, that content is already now free, and that is the content that is being removed and adjusted. I don't really think anyone will be sad to see the removal of the planets Titan, Io, Mercury, and Mars, or the removal of the Curse & Warmind stories. What will be missed is the Leviathan, Eater of Worlds, Spire of Stars, Scourge of the Past, Crown of Sorrows, and 7/17 Strikes (one of which I still haven't played since it just launched with Shadowkeep, Festering Core). And the players most impacted by this will be the New Light playerbase, for whom it doesn't seem like much of the game will be left to play. This would lead me to conclude that it's extremely likely that all Forsaken content will be added to New Light for free upon the release of Beyond Light. Which would setup a pretty easy to understand precedent for how/when content will go to New Light players, which is exactly 2 years after release. So my best advice for now for people who want to jump into Destiny, is to not purchase Forsaken anymore.
This idea that content will only live on in Destiny for 3 years seems very plausible to me, whereby after that 3 years, 1 of which is free to everyone, it goes into the DCV. If that is how they plan on Destiny 2 going forward, I don't know that this is all that big of an issue as long as they are able to recreate content from the DCV as New Light free to play content, very likely to bolster their lackluster free seasonal events. I really hope they don't try to resale DCV content, as that is really messed up, but all indications as far as I can tell are to use the DCV to make it easier to create free pipeline content, which I'm all for. I honestly think this is another one of those situations where Bungie has good intentions, and absolutely terrible messaging about those intentions.
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