I dont know how the developers thought this was a good idea. Its a total slap in the face to the hardcore PvE players. The insane amounts of grinding required to unlock the cosmetics in this game drained the fun out of every aspect of the game that was originally enjoyable. And now? All the grind meant nothing. The fact that you have a record of player milestones already so you know what weve achieved and could have easily transferred it over.
Basically if you respected players time investment and unlocked all the trophies for them then this updated would literally have nothing outside of naming their ship. But you have ship milestones not just player milestones. You could have respected the players progress and they would just have to lvl the ship milestones for various things. But instead NOPE lets create and amazing cool system for new players and make OG players just want to quit the game.
And the fact that people are being banned for voicing their opinion and giving the slightest negative but constructive feedback... How insecure are the developers? We know you have zero respect for the players time. I mean thats a given from gold reward for doing tall tales being so small, though hey it was increased so now its a tiny bit better than actually testing on insiders. But then insiders oh our time testing your game so you dont have to actually hire testers is worth 3000g per hour. But only for 1 hour a week anything past the first hour is literally just donating your time to a company that clearly hates the players.