Please remove the weekly lock out of stuff

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It's really not possible to have a productive conversation on this topic if you want to keep conflating the specific issue of gear with the broader concept of having any reason whatsoever to do the content. Ponies are decidedly not gear related and are the perfect example of things that will keep people doing content even if you let them gear up quickly and easily. There are still pony farm groups, actual pony farms, not birds, even to this day. The gear is worthless, but the cosmetic reward never loses value so long as there are people who don't have it and want it. Gear is a very temporary incentive even at the best of times.

So what, you're going to put mounts in every piece content in the entire game? That inherently devalues them. Your idea of a "productive conversation" seems to hinge on "weekly lock outs suck and need to be abandoned" with no willingness to accept the inevitably consequences such a decision renders. If people can have everything at all one time, they have no reason to continuously play. It's why nearly every mutli-player game builds micro-translation around avoiding an exceedingly long grind. There always has to be some hurdle, be it tediously grinds, weekly lockouts or RNG. Gear being a temporary incentive is why it works. People want power not just cosmetics. There is no sense of progression if you can literally get everything from the word go. All you accomplish is wearing your playerbase out. Right now, people farm mounts as a side activity. What you're purposing is it becomes the literal selling feature of the game since everything else is unlocked. That has diminishing returns, more so than gear ever will.