Alex
I just dropped in with the new Beyond Light campaign and got back up to speed sharpish.
It’s definitely still a bit confused imo, but I think they’re getting themselves into a position after Activision messed them up, that they can drop the number at the end and just call it Destiny.
If you don’t want to get Beyond Light yet, then the other campaigns have been dropping gear appropriate to my level and so have strikes.
I’m doing the Shadow Keep one just now and I’m getting 1215 - 1225ish purple drops very regularly.
The specific end of mission campaign rewards are at the old cap though, which is a little frustrating; but given that you can just pick up purple engrams and exotics during any activity, isn’t the end of the world by any stretch.
I think the end game for bungie is to actually have a more streamlined onboard for new players, but at this half way stage it’s, initially at least, still not obvious.
I suspect the planets that have “disappeared” will gradually reappear over the course of 2021 and we’ll have a decent springboard for whatever Destiny is going to become.