Defiance was never legendary when I played, it was always limit 2.
Maybe that has changed with lower players though.

But anti hoarding needs to exist. Gear lockers are real things. Lock up gear, just to keep it out of enemy hands, or preserve until you roll up something that can use it.

Sad to say, some people would abuse things if they knew a char would never be hit by anti hoarding. Logging in long enough to avoid auto delete is too easy.