Void Ark to drop Esoteric parts for upgrade why?

[Ibi]

I think a key distinction here, is that way, waaaaaaay more players this time around can't complete the raid content because of difficulty. There's an even more polarizing gap in difficulty between what raiders had to go through, and how easy it will be to get through Void Ark/CT.

The counter-argument being that with waaaaaaay more players unable to clear the raid, it's even more important to make the upgrade items available to those players as soon as possible, especially since they should be done with Esoterics already, leaving that as the main route of gear improvement for them.