It's perfectly acceptable to let go of old gear and move one, he isn't crazy in the least. I raided Ice Crown Citadel so many times in wrath of the lich king for WoW it was mind numbing. There were numerous times I lost the loot roll for a weapon to someone and many more the particular weapon I was looking for didn't even drop. I didn't get the weapon until well after transmog came out for wow years later and could only have my weapon look like the old one, I never got to experience it's strength. This is every week for the entirety that ice crown citadel gear was relevant, over a year and a half, with hours spent in their on 2 separate difficulties each week. You want to cry about this trifle amount of time done each week to get something and not use it? The relevance of a weapon upgrade in wow trumps a gun with a few different perks than others of its kind and basically same dps out by a long shot. Accepting that the old will be irrelevant is logical, not crazy.