I understand your side But optional or not, it’s a very bad idea. strictly because the activities that you want match making in, require teamwork and basic knowledge of mechanics. I doubt the people who want matchmaking want to teach every time they want to raid or what not. For example, Imagine you’re new but want to do last wish. You enter matchmaking for it and get grouped with 5 randos who are also new. Now try getting communication with them set up and try completing an encounter with 0 people knowing what to do. First encounter is 5-10 minutes normally, now it’s been an hour and someone still keeps standing on the wrong plate or dying to a blight or people refuse to run a proper loadout for dps or simply cannot figure out the safe rooms. Then there’s the fact that the game isn’t set to just 1 region so you can end up playing with people who don’t speak any bit of your native tongue and vice versa. It just won’t work. Strikes and hunts already show how bad randoms are. Lets not forget that match-made activities don’t have a designated fire team leader (to prevent trolling) Meaning, if someone just decides to troll or afk or just cannot perform, you can’t do anything about them. You have to look at it from every angle and not just assume people don’t want matchmaking because they want to gate casuals. There are just too many variables and I doubt you want X to give it to ya. This is why lfg is a thing. It’s not hard to use and there is literally one on this site you posted on. I used it last night to do a GM. Used it the other day for trials and have used it many times for raids.