I think that they do, but people aren't wanting to accept it. Bungie clearly wants D2 to be a PVP-oriented game that is more akin to an FPS. It wants to maintain the appearance of being a loot-grinder in PVE because it KNOWS that the majority of its population is PVE oriented, so they can't just overnight come out and say "Psyche! Destiny is actually our way of making Halo a Multi-Platform FPS!" Their PVE players would be in an uproar if they did that, and they'd likely lose more than half their audience. So instead of doing it overnight, they've just done it incrementally.