Does recycling exotics hurt this game the answer to that question is no what does hurt the game and it players is when bungie engineers a quest deliberately to segregate players or to include things like the crucible or gambit that’s what hurts the game and makes people want to play less of the game. It’s been two years since destiny 2 came out and they still can’t figure it out that only catering to so called hard core players is what is ruining this game when there needs to be a balance between all players specially in open world/patrol