According to your profile, you've beaten the raid a total of 9 times on norm/hard. Even if your "countless" (lol) raids were all hard,(which is impossible) you can't expect the best gear in the game in that amount of time (3 weeks if you have 3 characters). It's not about "earning" or even being a 30 elitist. It's about the challenge and like I said, it's the BEST GEAR IN THE GAME. I have been frustrated with the RNG of the game, but I didn't complain when it took me 20 hard raid clears to get my first helmet (and no that is not an exaggeration). A handful of raids should not give you the best gear in the game, so for that I give bungie kudos.