Stat squish confirmed: How will unsynced old content be handled?

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The code isn't great, but I don't think that has anything to do with the belts other than the limited inventory slots.
They could have left the belts as they are. It's a long overdue decision to remove belts and free up those inventory slots for other things.
In fact they probably took the stat squish as the opportunity to remove belts, seeing as it would require recalculating stats.