Well, Matchmaking is a very good tool. Imagine, Crucible without Matchmaking, it would killed Crucible and the whole PvP scene in Destiny. Matchmaking Strikes, works well, and you can play your lovely Strikes over and over again, you just need to press 1 button and the action can begin. Is it bad to have Matchmaking for Strikes? No, it would bad to do not have such option. Sure you can invite friends and make some runs, but for how long? Not everyone want grind 1 Strike over and over again, so you need to search, when you want make more runs. For what? When you can just simply use Matchmaking. People love that kind of comfort. Or imagine, 2 years after release. You want to try another class, and do some Strikes, but most people in your Friendlist are max level with all 3 classes, sou you need to look for some new beginners, and ask them to join your group for strikes. But we dont need to do such things, because we have Matchmaking! So it works so well, why we cant use it in Raids? And here we go, there was some threads in this forum where people had problems in Devil's Lair, because they played bad, had bad gear and weapons + Matchmaking with random people + bad randoms with same bad gear=Game Over! So what they do? They start threads in forums and want NERFS, because it was so hard. And it was The Devil's Lair, so easy this Strike, i did it so many times in Matchmaking, and i must say it was fun to teach many randoms to play it right, but they learn, and so they can do the same when they join Devil's Lair with next randoms. Because this people have the will to learn. But most people dont want to learn anything, they just want instant loot, and dont even try to play this game right. After some deaths they quit, ok you can finish a Strike like Devil's Lair even alone, but its boring and you need much more time. So, in the end you do not lose so much time. But what about Raids? When same bad people, join the Matchmaking and quit over and over again, or same bad people make the Raid harder than it is? They start to spam forums for nerfs, i promise you, people will open so many threads and scream for nerfs just because they had a bad experience in some Raid. More people would use Matchmaking for Raids than people with friends. But its ok, but what is definitely not ok, is when this mass of people starting screaming for nerfs. I think thats why Bungie dont want start a tool like Matchmaking for Raids. "Omg its was so long and hard, 2 hours srsly? Nerf this shit!" "This quitters, bungie, nerf them!" "Omg, after so many runs, still no exotic, wtf is this?NERF!!!" So in the end they would nerf the Raids just to make the casuals happy, and the real hardcore gamers who did the raids for challenge, are the sad ones, because there is no challenge anymore. Plus, this badass Raid loot is not so epic anymore because the nerfed Raids are just easy mode, and everyone can get the best Items. This is bullshit when you say: "I cant find some people for Raid!" Raid is End-Game content, so when you are such a End-Gamer you find easy more people than you need. Or how about all people who LF Raids, just use 1 area in the Tower? Planetarium maybe? The zone is empty, so people can hanging around Planetarium and everyone knows, this people looking for Raid. Because, it can be hard for most, asking all players in the Central Tower for Raids. Or Bungie need to made 1 special zone in Tower where people can group up for Raids. Raid Matchmaking would be not bad for Destiny, but all the whiners would ruin it, the whole balance and original design behind Raids.