It kills me that the people trying to play the "you just want to be carried" card are the same people that are always getting carried. I mentioned this before in a similar thread, but Bungie clearly just doesn't want people "skipping grind." I think the scaling system is an admission that there probably aren't enough players to support a Tier Lockout system, but they don't want anyone able to skip over tiers because the Almighty Hamster Wheel drives everything in this game. Maybe if Bungie made the content actually fun to do on repeat, it wouldn't be so bad. Oh well... a player can dream, I suppose.