Raids became elitist thanks to in part the just painful amounts of bullet sponges. There were weapons you needed to cut the encounter time wayyyy down. Bungie addressed it way to late and so now we get stuck with salty try hards on that end. Plus you hand out Iron Banana and ToO to PvPers and don't really have a PvE event. Bundled with trying to force people to PvP to keep playtime numbers up. It start to really not be a mystery why folks got a deeper divide.