Xur is only another facet of the problem with the loot system in this game. High-tier equipment is so easily available from either Xur or the numerous ways of cheati-er sorry I mean "exploiting" on the weekly nightfalls and raids that there is really no thrill in obtaining new gear. Instead of people each randomly obtaining great pieces of gear as show-pieces there is flocking back and forth between easily obtainable "OP" gear, all to the background noise of people bickering about "earning" or buying their gear. The result is an endgame where we all grind our asses off to obtain the same gear as everybody else, then play crucible matches with the same gear as everybody else. So a game that should have tons of diversity becomes exactly like every other pvp shooter, except without the great balance and flow found in many of them. (I say "pvp shooter" because after completing the strikes 20-30 times a pop, completing the story a couple times, and finishing the raid, pvp is the only interesting and dynamic content left to play.) A lot of the people complaining about Xur aren't complaining because they don't get to be a snowflake anymore, they're complaining because it changes receiving great loot from something exciting into something inevitable.