You've got it. Its a design choice on the part of Bungie that is an over-reaction to the Y1 D1 need to "turtle" behind cover in a defensible spot, because they made the play environments so ridiculously lethal. They did a pretty good job of finding middle ground for Years 2 and 3 for D1. But now the pendulum has gone to the other extreme now. Where just about every boss fight is being fought in a box from which you can't escape....and in which there is little to no effective cover...and no verticality. So---no matter where you go--- you're always vulnerable to being flanked or over run by trash mobs. Who ever is designing strikes needs to realize that this design only works for certain kinds of bosses. It worked for Shield Brothers because you could use SPACE to protect you. The Melee brother could only attack from short range...so if you backed up...you were safe and could deal with the adds. The Mortar brother could only attack you at range....so if you got up close....you were safe. Which made for a fun strike where there was constant dance of trying to manage distance. Lake of Shadows and Sunless Cell worked similarly. The Boss is dangerous up close....but relatively harmless at range. The pain points are managing the shirnking platform, and the darkness respectively But with the Wretched Eye....they started this tend of the boss battle just becoming this killing box where you had to run around constantly just to survive because there's no effective cover....and now you have a boss that can attack you from anywhere....as well as teleport right up into your face. So you wind up having to run around like a headless chicken trying to stay alive because there is no effective cover from which to fight. IMO, this makes for a play experience that is PUNISHING instead of challenging....and TEDIOUS rather than fun. Unfortunately most of the Destiny 2 strike boss fights follow this script. The Nokris strike is tolerable because both the Orge mid-way boss...and Nokris himself both move very slowly . So there's time to move to better cover if you get flushed from one spot. But the Prodromos Down strike is just obnoxious. That Boss is extremely fast. Extremely tanky. Gates your damage by teleporting away. Half the fighting area has been cut away so they are holes you can fall into to your death.....and the other half you have shanks putting down a suppressor field so you can't run or jump to get away from the enemies who are---oh by the way---unaffected by that field. There is a good reason why most of the player base hates that fight.

I feel the opposite, i think the strikes in D2 are alot better than all D1 strikes pre ttk. These strikes reward players who memorize add spawns and cover changes. Nearly every early strike in D1 you would just find some cover that worked and youd just stay there the whole time, the fights were boring. The added difficultly is refreshing and needed imo. If they were easy the game would feel even more empty than it already is.

I’m not a fan of those killing hole designs either, no sane person would deliberately put themselves into such an inferior exposed position. I guess flushing out the player makes it easier to balance the whole thing, it makes the simple enemy AI more menacing without having to be too clever. Soloing certain nightfalls becomes super difficult or next to impossible, but I think bungie doesn’t care about that. It’s either get with the program or you’re shit outta luck.

Exodus Down is great, not only do enemies chase you around but so do their bullets. All day running around you can't take a break. Running wouldn't be so bad if it built up to anything but it doesn't.

I think this was done by design. It's to prevent people from camping in a corner and picking away at the boss's health.

No, there is enough cover. If Titan players would actually start to use their walls and Warlocks using their rift more often, nobody would die. I don‘t k kw why so many people „forget“ their class ability. Not to mention the players constantly ignoring the goddamn ads instead of killing them. It is so frutsrating wiping 2 times in a row (glass modifier) because the other 2 random guys were constantly dishing out damage on the Pyramidion Boss (even though I had no power ammo left and one of the guys only had 1 rocket as well). That left us with 2 waves of ads, including snipers, yellow bars, rushing goblins and no consistent natural cover at all because it is scripted and the cover was switching way too fast. After the 2nd wipe they actually realized that they should kill the ads first before advancing to the next phase. Seriously....many times it is just the fault of idiots.