A problem with the portal is that it can feel disengaging or isolating. What if there was a landing zone space where the portal exists in real time. Various vendors or hangars similar to what renegades has done with the cantina for each type of mode. It could be directly integrated into the tower itself right now. Speak to Shax to launch a crucible a mode, speak to Zavala for strikes and those nightfall missions, ikora for vanguard ops and past seasonal stuff. Speak to the drifter to launch gambit and exotic missions type stuff since xur is rotational. Gunsmith to launch gun range directly from tower. Launch trials by speaking to Saint. Hawthorne can launch raids since all the clan related stuff has been there for a minute. That’s just the premise, you can get nit picky and give specific stuff that’s related to specific characters or vendors which can at least draw connection dots between the content in the game and the characters with the over arching story which would help out new players