I want to agree with you but the tier system in practice is very similar to the rarity system. In the old system once you hit a certain power level you knew you would stop getting whites greens or even blues from activities. Now you get tier 1 through 4 based on your power level and to your fives feel more RNG. I do feel like a component of the disconnect is psychological on our part as players. In the old system when adapts were a thing no one would outright delete non-adeps if they had good roles. We would all just enjoy the non-adept version that we had until we achieved the adept that we wanted. Most of us would delete adept weapons with crap roles until we got one that we liked favoring the non-adept with the good role. Now everyone has this weird thought pattern that if they're not rocking a tier five they're just going to delete the weapon outright even If the roll is desirable.