As I right now, there's no point in running Strikes. The point is that you should be able to do anything you want in the game, not have to run one activity in the game. The point is that there's supposed to be a balance between being able to get the Bright Engrams for free, and just buying them. There's still no explanation on why they made the decision to double the amount of XP needed to level up. I guarantee there's other people who agree with me. All I want is a better playing experience and I really don't want to spend everyday arguing on the forums because of it.

Definitely true, would be nice if all activities would be sort of equally rewarding depending on the time invested and/or difficulty. I think that was Bungies intention aswell. But they still got some serious work to do on that front. But in my experience currently, if you are just farming XP for Bright Engrams, Strikes is a very effective grind (if you can do the strikes in a timely fashion.) It does still feel really long though, especially compared to the way it was before. I guess we'll have to wait and see if they'll adjust it. I believe they will. 👍🏻