So I put this out there on reddit as well and I'm hoping to get this out as much as possible in hopes of it being heard and hopefully implemented for literally everyone's collective benefit. This is a proposal, and hopefully convincing argument toward the action of making any 7 win card in Trials of Osiris reward a player with an adept weapon upon turning said card in (similar to how you can do the same if you were already flawless and got a 7 win card post completion just without the prerequisite of having gone flawless during said weekend.) Say what you want about the meta and how bad it is, but at the end of the day the best way to fix trials is to make it so more people are willing to even enter the playlist let alone stick around long enough for their participation to really matter. If you were to make this change, sure not every casual would enter the playlist, but casuals who want to get better would considering there would be a light at the end of the tunnel to reward them for dredging through the slog that is Trials of Osiris. Lighthouse would still have all of its cosmetic rewards and mementos. Hell getting flawless would even get them more drops considering keeping a flawless card and playing on it would let you farm for even more adepts as it is. Points are as follows. 1: This change would grab enough people to come into to the playlist to warrant the removal of flawless pool which almost everyone agrees is bad for everyone of all skill levels and it would end the practice of resetting cards. 2: Carries would still have a place considering the trials armor glow, mementos, ship, and ghost are some of the best looking cosmetics that the game has to offer whereas everyone else would still be able to have their time respected and its not a handout considering they still had to bash their faces against the wall to even get to that point. 3: Honestly this one is the most important to me, but I think it would give and show a more realistic means of improvement to a casual/semi-casual player because they can see that 7 win card and see how many losses on it when they finally get there and work to improve each time to the point where they eventually get their own flawless. 4: This would be the best way to fix the inherent "skill creep" that trials fundamentally has where only the highest echelon of skilled individuals reap the rewards and anything resembling fun that can be found in the playlist. 5: If there's more players in the playlist overall, everyone wins. The casuals have a chance of matching other casuals and sweats have more casuals to stomp to speedrun their adept farms while not completely pushing out the casuals out of the playlist outright. For context, I'll just put it out there from what perspective I play from. I'm .7 kd and I used to go flawless with friends back before Witch Queen launch. It wasn't consistent, but even if we didn't go flawless, we would sometimes play just to grind rank and get some engrams along the way. The changes in meta, cheaters, and stacked teams. You name it and we dealt with it just like everyone else. With the lulls that came from the 6 month season and the 3.0-ification of our ability kits, cheese has shown its way to reign supreme to the point where we have more fun in control even with SBMM. For those of you who will inevitably show up with your classic "git good" comments, doesn't getting good involve practice, learning, and implementing said learning from real-time application? How would one even get the motivation to get good if the nature of the game pushes you out if you aren't good already? I have to make an addendum here just to clarify what seems to be a confusing point, but turning a flawed 7 win card for an adept and getting lighthouse would be entirely separate things. After a little more than a year, I'm once again wanting to try to get this idea out there in hopes of Bungie implementing this. It's been a year and the only change that's happened since was a chance of base drops on wins and the player count still is low outside of specific maps and weapon of the given week. With overall player sentiment and data showing less and less of the player base are even willing to touch crucible in general, let alone trials, with a 10 foot pole. The very least they can do to genuinely "try" to get casuals willing to go into trials is showing them there's something waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. Yes I know that sitting on a flawed card and the implementation of practice pool exists, but how often do you find people willing to engage with even that? The final reason why I still believe this is the most viable solution for trials lack of numbers is because it's frankly the simplest to do in comparison to what others believe to be the solutions to trials. The Trials of Osiris from D1 is gone and will never come back. That's just something we as a community have to come to terms with. We have to deal with shifting metas and cheaters at levels never seen before with an admittedly nerfed security team. The way I see it, it's either this or a "we give up" update.