If you're are wondering why things are so sweaty I will give you a legit breakdown. 1. Crucible is completely unfun for the average/casual players. (No casual wants to get stomped in trials and bagged after getting 6stacked stomped in control earlier completing their dailies.) This in return lowers the amount of new blood for trials. No one to stomp, no easy wins. 2. incentive: why would PVE player want a crucible sniper this week? Many better dps options not to mention the IB sniper is better for dps in about every way. 3. Farmers/ those that wait until flawless pool opens up. If it wasn't bad enough there are players who farm first 3 wins and reset to inflate KD. Most are pretty average but other times it's sad. Like after a 1.8 do you really need to inflate your trials KD more??? Also those who don't want to deal with sweats will wait for the last 2 days to play so they can roll over the remaining player base trying to go flawless. (According to the data that Bungie provided trials is just a little more populated than vanguard strikes playlist. That being said a smaller player base means only the die hard and try hards remain, on top of that you have farmers and those that wait which only increases the difficulty. I'm a try hard crucible player -blam!- got back into Destiny 2 about 2 months ago and I'm not even that great but I can respect those PVE players for not playing because they are truly making a statement and from what we have seen with Bungie they listen to data and not feedback. As it stands regular crucible is not providing enough new lights/ new players. Trials player base is decreasing slowly. So honestly I would give it maybe another season and we will probably see some big changes. If you made it this far thanks, have a good day!

They made it so you only get adept guns on a 7 win card while in flawless pool, they simply do not drop after matches before flawless pool, so there’s no reason for most teams to go flawless before flawless pool is active.