I made a thread about similar issue last week, but I got 5 bows in a row.
1. How you can call sharpened junk is for me a riddle itself ^^. But anyway to my point. I´ve said it before and I´ll say it again: No to tradeable vMSA weapons (and if I hear some stupid "pre-DB" *** argument I will go full rant, no but for real, rng was bad then and it still bad). I think it´s fine that the BiS weapons are "locked" by some content.
2. I´m all for a token system, but tokens should only be rewarded in veteran mode, normalmode is to easy to even be associated with the msa-weapons. And higher score and a better place on leaderboards should be rewarded with a better weapon (don´t think it works that way at the moment which is wierd imo).