I abandoned all my exotice weapon quests. I hate how Bungie forces you to put hours into game modes you don't enjoy playing in order to earn them. They shouldn't force you to play the game their way; they should let you play it the way you want to. All that being said, I have earned Patience & Time, The Last Word and Red Death by beating the raid and putting lots of time into PvE. I also wish you could store the exotice bounties in your vault to tackle later, because I kept getting so many that they were filling up all my bounty slots.
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Would you really call random drops "earned" though? - this is a whole different topic entirely but worth thinking about.
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Yes. I earned them in the sense that I had to put a lot of time into the game in order to finally get them by beating the raid or weekly nightfall. The exotice bounties are no different. You grind and grind until you finally get a bounty, and then you grind some more until you get the weapon. The process is just less random and uncertain, and requires you to play both modes even if you don't want to. I understand your grief about them being awarded for winning crucible matches, but exotics don't exactly fall off of trees in PvE.