I like your openness and acknowledge my own closed minded perspective, but this really should not cost the player anything at all. The only reason affinity exists is to solve a bungie resource problem. It was never a game design decision and thus adding in a cost to bypass their own limitations does not help the game at all (and only hurts the player base). Choices we make with regard to armor/weapons that get masterworked are significant and should be. I don't object to those costs (which are massive). Choices we make as to an arbitrary system implemented to solve a Bungie resource issue should not be considered "impactful" and Bungie should politely remove their hand from our digital pockets and apologize for having handcuffed us for so long and simply let us make affinity choices with ZERO cost. Don't cut the cost in half. Reduce it by 100%. Say sorry. Get some hardly earned praise and do something to actually show just a little "give a shit" about their player base.