My big issue with them isn't that they're hard, or even that they're long. It's that they're so damn [i]boring[/i]. Like, doing an inane and mundane task like "get scout rifle kills" is par for the course I guess, but they're always the bottom of the barrel type of quest, and they're always what people are talking about when they complain about games feeling too much like a second job. You walk in and the game expects you to do a task for your reward. Maybe that task is shooting a man with a gun, maybe that task is stocking the shelves at the local walmart, or taking a routine tech support call. Then, instead of the joy of immediate joy upon completion of the task, as we would if it was something like running a very hard nightfall strike, the game turns around and goes "Now do that one hundred more times, except we also want you do some more busy work along the way." and much like stocking the shelves while helping customers every few minutes; you don't even get a reward for doing this task until several days later, and much like the paycheck you get at walmart; the more you look at it the more you wonder if it was ever worth it. What I'm saying is that if you're going to give us a long and grindy quest, it's got to be something more than just "get a [i]lot[/i] of kills with one specific weapon in one specific game mode" because oh man is that the least interesting possible way to design content. But, then again, I did just finally finish the grenade launcher that wanted [i]fifteen hundred grenade launcher kills and five hundred grenade launcher multi-kills exclusively in playlist strikes.[/i] So I'm starting to think bungie's just forgotten what fun quest design was. Because it sure isn't "Can you do this task? Cool, now do it until that task stops having any and all meaning and you want to die."