Someone Somewhere
Titan
You have to go to their page to see this, and most people only glance under the name, if that. Plus it's not a long term solution, unless you intend to wipe all progress and shift all badges to legacy status every 6 months.Veterans are easily discernible by the sheer number of Legacy badges they possess
While I agree with some of your points, I think that the changeover should have had a bit more prior consultation - though it's often hard to get people to notice until something has obviously changed.
The main problem I see is that immediately after the change, very few people had badges and still, what you did before the switch has very little impact on your current badges.