How do I phrase this... Doing that mission on legendary was, perhaps, the most miserable experience I've endured since Master Mode Vox Obscura. I could argue that it was stupidly overtuned, that it's too damn hard, that it's going to gatekeep too many people, and while all of that may hold some level of truth, I also don't think a damn thing should be changed. Allow me to explain. I never got the chance to play D1, for reasons that I won't get into. Streamers and vets and "toxic elites" have long waxed poetic about how much more difficult things like nightfalls and hard mode raids and things were, however clouded by roseate retrospection such reminiscing may be. The point was, the game was harder in the past, and it made completing certain things feel like more of an achievement. If anyone has ever played a Soulslike game, you'd understand the hedonic rush from finally toppling a boss so insanely difficult 90% of players never even get there, let alone beat it. The Vexcalibur Mission (I duo'd it. Couldn't find a third on LFG) was a brutal, exhausting, multi-hour slog. I'll admit, getting repeatedly dunked on by snipers and wyverns, slung across the map bc the physics engine is a piece of crap, and having to restart 9 times because Bungie disabled Join-in-Progress and my teammate kept getting disconnected, it was all a recipe for some serious gamer rage. Don't get me wrong. That mission really, really pissed me off before the end of it. I genuinely thought on more than one occasion that it was just too damn difficult. Yet... When Brakion finally toppled into a heap of scrap metal, and my teammie and I were teabagging and taco dropping Asher Mir's trophy arm, there was a sense of achievement there. Genuinely, it felt like a greater triumph than solo-flawlessing every legend batleground last season. It felt better than soloing my first dungeon. The level of difficulty, the unrelentling punishment for the smallest of mistakes, the grind and slog and all of it made the final moment so much better. It felt triumphant. Yes, the game has gotten brutally difficult. Yes, the "toxic elites", streamers, and OGs petitioned relentlessly for this. Yes, a lot of casuals and noobs are upset about these changes. Yes, I kind of do miss how easy things were last season. I also wouldn't go back to the way things were. The difficulty of completing the challenge makes the completiong of it so much more rewarding. I hate that -blam!- mission, but dammit, I think I love it too.