You don't want PVE to feel exhilarating or challenging? You enjoy plowing through mobs of idiots? You don't want the game to bring the best of your skill out and force you to become better at the game?

No. When I compete, I'm not chasing a feeling....I'm looking to win. And getting caught up in emotion---mine or someone elses---interferes with my ability to perform at my best. I play my best when my mind is clear, quiet, and firmly rooted in the PROCESS of playing whatever game (or sport) I'm playing. Not the anticipated (or feared) results. In some sports "gettting jacked" can help you....but if you go to far, it hurts you. I've always played games where riding those kinds of emotional highs and lows hurts, and doesn't really help. OTOH, "Being in the Zone"....is playing in a mental state that is almost a meditation-in-motion. The Player Becomes the Game. The Musician the Music. The Dancer the Dance.

There is always some sort of feeling there whether you want to feel it or not. If you're losing, you want to win. When you're winning, you're happy. When you win too easily, you seek a greater challenge to help make you better so you can win harder or you get bored. PVE is sitting at a point where it's not a challenge so winning or playing doesn't really feel good. Beating the raid feels good... But that's like 3% of the game. What if winning meant what it did in PVP but in PVE? Would you really not want the game to be that way?

Some times there is....sometimes there is not. When there is an emotion, the question is "How do you relate to it? Does it serve you....or do you serve IT?" Emotions make useful servants....but TERRIBLE masters. In some games, emotional arousal can help you. Football is a game of speed and strength...so the activation that excitement or anger brings can make your body perform better...IF YOU CAN CONTROL IT AND NOT GET SWEPT UP IN IT. If you can stay...as famous golfer Sam Snead once said, "Cool mad." As a pitcher in baseball, the last thing you ever wanted to do was throw at me. Because I'd get mad--but I'd stay COOL MAD---so the anger would sharpen my focus. Make my faster and stronger...and many a pitcher who threw at me trying to intimidate me, often got treated to watching me take a slow jog around the bases a few pitches later. But there is no free lunch. Excitement or anger that is uncontrolled can cause you to lose focus. You get flooded, and swept up in the emotion...and wind up paying more attention to what is going on inside of you..than what you're doing in the game. Negative emotion---sadness, frustration, disappointment, and fear---interfere with your performance. So relying on emotion to augment your performance is a dual-edged sword. OTOH, if you stay rooted in the PROCESS of playing the game, you'll often move into a Flow state of mind. This is "The Zone". Your mind goes quiet. Emotion and other distractions drop away...and your mind takes on an almost laser-like focus on whatever it is you are doing in the moment. It is in this state of mind that we often reach our peak performance.....the Dancer becomes The Dance...BECAUSE ALL THE THINGS WE DO THAT INTERFERE WITH OUR MAXIMAL PERFORMANCE GET OUT OF THE WAY. Like a weight lifter, we only activate those "mental muscles' necessary to accomplish what is needed...and we react faster and more efficiently than we even thought we were capable of. A couple of other things. Boredom is personal....and we usually get bored when there is nothing on the outside to distract us from what we don't wish to face or experience on the INSIDE. Face whatever that is...and you'll find yourself far less susceptable to boredom. Meaning is personal. Things only "mean" whatever it is we choose to believe that they mean. People, places, and things, only have the meaning---and thus the power over us---that WE give them.

Physical sport is a bit different to video games that are set against AI. I totally understand everything you're saying and I agree. If you can master that anger then it makes you better but if you let it get to you then you're screwed. That is true in games as well. In a PVE shooter it's important for the game to be difficult enough that it requires you to get better at the game. In Baseball if everyone were born with the perfect ability to throw and pitch and bat then there would be no reason for anyone to aim for the top. Now imagine that Baseball game except there are only two teams in the whole league. One is a Major League level and the other team is full of children. Every game they play is so one sided that there's no point in watching because you know the results. That is Destiny 2 PVE content in a nutshell. There is no point in playing the main campaign because the story isn't interesting enough and the gameplay is easy and mindnumbing. You know you're going to win from the moment you start because of how simple the other team is. The only difficulty you get from it is from growing impatient. You know there's no challenge so why the hell can't the game hurry up? You do a couple of stupid things because you're bored and you might die if you're extremely unlucky. That is bland and boring and not something that people would want to watch or play. That is my argument for why PVE should learn from PVP. PVP is something worth playing because you get a real sense of victory out of it. It's worth winning. Is it worth winning when your opponent is a team of idiots?