I remember about 18 months ago when there was a splurge of twitter activity, current Devs moving to marathon & the new hires free to say they'd been hired, & you're presumption is correct. All I'll say is that pretty all of them except 1 woman had no, or very little experience, & where hired to work on D2 expansions or D2 seasons. The woman, with experience, was made D2 expansion lead & led lightfall & she's leading final shape, which I found shows exactly where destiny is in bungies priority list.

Yep

I don't think they play destiny at all or we won't see drifting apart nonsense in the first place

Yes, he did.

So I noticed this about 18 months ago & the alarm bells where ringing loudly I used to follow a few bungie things (I don't anymore) so twitter would put random bungie tweets in my timeline & it was flooded with people celebrating being hired by bungie, fair enough. However, they where all new to game dev, or had very little experience, all very young & overly excited, mostly looked like being diverse & heavily into social media helped land the job but that was just my feeling. This alongside the last few old school Devs also tweeting they where moving to marathon & removing D2 from their twitter bios told me everything I needed to know about where this games headed. It's basic business I get it, but the work from home thing hits hard. This generation refuse to go into work anymore & companies can't remove them & get other people because no one will take the role if they have to go to the office. Actually saw a bungie server engineer a while ago during the apparent ddos attacks, saying how he was excited about going to bungie to work on servers for the first time, yet he'd been one of the server leads for about 3 years. Later said the building was empty & he didn't plan on going back anytime soon.