let's get some elementary properties straight: Twitch skill is not gun skill. Accuracy is. Lower TTK makes a more competitive shooter. Higher TTK lowers skill gap. Halo had a low TTK and high (base) mobility meaning you had to retain accuracy while you and you're opponent were strafing at full mobility (old Bungie halos) In destiny ttw could kill consistently in half a second and thorn could two shot. Also, you lose mobility while aiming so you don't have to compensate for your own movement to retain accuracy. Destiny also has unreasonably high aim assist even for a console shooter. I attribute the loss of player base from vanilla destiny to now to the year one multiplayer. In short, it had a lower skill gap than cod. If you weren't one-shotting with supers/specials/other bullshit, then you were two shotting with a weapon with a half second TTK. It's the formula for a low skill gap. Turn it into a twitch shooter so accuracy barely matters (it can't when TTK's are .5 seconds or one shots) to allow poor shooter players to feel good about themselves and stay with the game. Activision's been doing it for years with cod and now bungie has sold out. Really there just needs to be a legendaries only no supers playlist where you don't start with special and a primary kills drops a special package on their body that grants a single special shot. ... But that would have a skill gap that most destiny players play destiny to avoid.