Prior to Lightfall they said they wanted to bring challenge back to Destiny and return to the “joy” of the random drop. Then we got the underwhelming and lacking story the Lightfall expansion, combined with those two goals that I don’t even think most players asked for and we see a massive decline in players. The challenge is one thing, I can deal with that minus a few outliers, but that loot goal of theirs has just plummeted my engagement with the game. It’s more fun to be able to reliably and consistently get new weapon rolls you want so you can try them out with guilds. Any given activity or focusing source being disappointing 99% of the time does not make for a fun experience. All my builds use either raid or seasonal weapons because that’s all I can ever get the rolls I want on. If they leaned into crafting instead of away from it, I’d be playing a lot more. Instead, I don’t feel that ritual playlist vendor weapons are worth chasing because the perk pools are large so the odds of getting the roll you want slim to none, and focusing them is basically worthless for this reason. Also, dungeon weapons have neither focusing nor crafting making them the worst weapon chase in the game by a landslide.