I agree with a lot of your points. Plenty of them reflect my own thoughts on the Skolas Poe I've also completed it twice. Void week and the final solar week with no primary weapon reward and only 1 elder cipher. Got to Skolas during arc week but our best player had to leave and it was clearly hopeless with a random replacement. Huge bonus points for your arc week completion Got to Skolas this week with 2 randoms and it was going alright after a couple fails. Got as far as clearing both sets of mines but a poor revive attempt by our hunter ended it. Unfortunately forgot about the maintenance Wednesday and got booted he next attempt. Haven't retried it yet. The reward just isn't there for the time commitment. This week I feel it is manageable but you definitely need good players with good team skills. I'd love to know the stats on Crota and VOG hard completions (prior to the DLCs that allowed us to be equal and higher than the enemies) vs Skolas completions. I have a feeling that Skolas completions are significantly less