It’s a little funny because we’ve had cases in recent expansions where older tier items are still really strong and better than later tier items and the player response seems to hate that.
Examples like Edge of Night, Old Warrior Sole, Veinripper, and other trinkets from SoD outclassing SotFO items.
In BFA we had Diver, razer coral, and font out classing Ny’alotha items.
And people seemed more annoyed by this as bad itemizing of the new raids, not an awesome way to keep old content relevant.