We have new features and that's all amazing and everything, but these "Gold tools now have garbage stats" change is just not very appropriate, I understand why it happened given the new content but changing them does nothing but cause unnecessary drama.
The player base has had access to gold stat Ninja tools for some time now and it's been wonderful. There is a distinct advantage between those that already have them and those of us who are... or were about to get them, it's rather disheartening seeing this change and now no one will ever want to change or upgrade their tools because all alternatives are frankly *.
This wouldn't have been a problem if the "Everything has gold stats now" update had never happened in the first place, but it did and it's what we're use to and it's how we want the tools to remain.