The fact that it's faster than the Forest is all I needed to hear. Seasonal activities should be fun "participation medals" to say that you were here. Grinding 23K candy and 194 pages isn't casual fun. It barely qualifies as "fun". For the Festival, there should be no special event. Just put on a mask and play whatever you want to collect candy and pages. Then turn the candy and pages into Eva. No conversion. No forced seasonal activity. And, make EVERYTHING have candy and pages. No pages after each encounter in VoG? That's terrible, and not at all "play how you want" as Bungie repeatedly swears they want us to do.