I want 2.2 to be a "reset" for players in full i90 gear. Make Turn 6 a distant goal.

[Alkimi]

Properly done the drops of an expansions first raid should be significant enough to be an upgrade. That's why "green is the new purple" became a way of life. You had to replace your prevous gear and run the race in the first raids again later. It keeps the playerbase at equal footing at the start of an expansion's raid content.

Exactly this. It's designed so people aren't overgearing everything as soon as the level cap is raised. They want you to play for longer and make all the new content of an expansion/level cap raise relevant so they're essentially reseting everyone. When they raise the level cap you can expect the "trash WP/AK gear" to be better than what you got from the final coil turns of the lvl50 cap era and the highest tier gear to be close to or even beyond the ilvl 200 mark.

Anyway, in reponse to the OP complete resets like this are only really appropriate for big expansions and level cap raises, not for individual patches within that era of the game.