After 8 years, Destiny 2 is killing those materials you're tired of collecting

gamesradar.com:

Destiny 2 will kill all existing planetary materials in an economy update coming next season, putting an end to the chokehold that the likes of Spinmetal Leaves and Helium Filaments have had on the Destiny player base for over eight years. 

Starting in Season 19, you won't be able to get any Dusklight Shards, Microphasic Datalattice, Helium Filaments, Baryon Boughs, Spinmetal Leaves, or Glacial Starwort. Gathering nodes will still exist in destinations, but they'll grant Glimmer, XP, and other general-use currencies instead. Some of these materials have been in Destiny since the original game launched, and with Destiny 2 updates reviving areas like the Moon and Cosmodrome, they've stuck with the game since. It's truly the end of an era. A tedious, fiddly era. 

Bungie outlined the update to destination mats in its latest blog post (opens in new tab). Design lead Josh Kulinski describes the change as part of a broader pass at Destiny 2's economy, and a way to make the game more approachable overall.  

"Destiny has grown to become a much more complex game than it started as all those years ago," Kulinski says. "One of the major goals that we have on the Economy Team for Destiny 2 is making the game more approachable to new and returning players. One way that we can do that is by reducing the number of currencies that players need to understand and keep track of. This helps us reduce the cognitive load that Destiny’s economy places on the player. With fewer currencies to manage, it’ll be easier for players to learn and remember the value of the items that they have in their inventories."

The void created by the loss of these materials will be filled with – you guessed it – different, existing materials. You'll still be able