While I agree that things are subject to change during the beta phase of a game, having that many changes and false promises this close to the release is quite disturbing. It feels like they don’t even know where they want to go or can do.
Look at the Aimee obsidian operative card. It was advertised by shoe saying that there is only one card this time (compared to the other obsidian operative) because they had plan for rework of the loadout system (and that’s alsowhy they previously said that gen3 cards weren’t planned). Then after, they stated that they finally won’t make further change to loadout system (without explaining why they changed their minds) and they maybe release gen3 cards in the future. All this happened this year, few months before the release.
To get back on OP’s subject, unless SD change their mind again, we’ll still be stuck with those 1 or 2 augments cards. Others and I have already suggested to transfer ead and iron skins to the bronze variants. Maybe with the gen3 cards ?