I feel like if bungie had not of put a hard stop brick wall at 345 on normal progression this would not be near as bad as it is. Personally i think they should of instead made the 1st cap at 355 (with mods) and then heroic strikes / crucible play get you up to 360 with legendary gear, and after 360 only raids / trails / nightfall and milestones get you from 360 to level cap it would of been ALOT better. Currently the hard cap at 345 means even on heroic strikes you are at a kind of bad disavantage, the raid lair might as well be inaccessible and finishing EP is actually impossible because of the enemies becoming immune. If the brick wall they forced you to hit was around 350 you could at least do heroic strikes without dying in 2 shots to get higher level and then at least participate in all this stuff that is "end game" even if you are still at a disadvantage it becomes possible to try. I feel like the activities themselves are in a fine spot, but bungie had a strategy for slowing progression that sounded good on a paper and didn't work as well as they thought it would. Because of this progression grinds to a halt at 345 and it is up to luck to get higher than maybe 348 in the same week you hit 345 (due to possible duplicates wasting powerful engram upgrades; 5 pair of 350 pants don't really increase your light level). Because of this elitism and toxicity is back in full effect just like back in D1 when you couldn't do PoE without having literally all the best gear in the game because no one would let you play or when you couldn't do even old raids without having max end game gear and its causing all the same problems it did back then. Its a problem that could be fixed, but the question is will they do it before it gets worse... I don't understand why people get so insane about stuff like this, you don't have to be a douche bag and a giant raging moron just to get something done. Heck, even if its about getting to the max level asap (which i don't understand) at the very least you could not be horrible about it and ruin the game for everyone else. I will never get why the majority of people in destiny (at least that i've ran into) default to douche bag 99% of the time when trying to get others to assist them or are asked for help.