What I hate about it is that it is the ONLY option for getting any of the new exotic armor pieces that I paid my money to obtain and play with. That's not to say that I should have turned on the game after the update and they landed in my lap. No. Because that's the other extreme. Bungie is seemingly incapable of finding middle ground. It's always one extreme or the other. With ONE exception... Cloudstrike. See, Cloudstrike was done correctly. It was a rare drop that only came if you got Platinum by the end of the mission but you can run it with friends and randoms to play and grind to your heart's content. Why wasn't this same middle ground applied to this? The correct answer is to purposefully pad the playtime for the majority of players. That's it. It's not content, it's padding. This is how I would have done EVERY new Lost Sector when it came to exotic grinding. Legend: With team, exotic piece is rare. Solo, exotic piece is uncommon. Master: With team, exotic piece is uncommon. Solo, exotic piece is common. BUT! I would have added something extra to sweeten the pot for the players who love challenging themselves in these sorts of endgame activities. Legend: Only solo, exotic ornament is rare. Master: Only solo, exotic ornament is uncommon. This way, players who enjoy the bragging rights of doing these Lost Sectors solo can have something to show-off in an exclusive ornament for each of the new exotic armor pieces. So, when a Lost Sector is showing Arms or Head as a reward, that's your chance to also unlock a unique ornament that cannot be gotten any other way if you solo it. Now, players who like a challenge can earn a reward that those of us who don't have the same time to dedicate to the grind and play with teams cannot obtain unless we choose to. CHOICE! I swear, every post I've made criticizing this company and this game comes down to the COMPLETE lack of choice for players. The "git gud" players are IN NO WAY hindered in their gameplay if us "oh no, filthy casual" players have an option to getting the same rewards as them. Hell, throw in a special Emblem that can only be unlocked if you complete all new Lost Sectors solo, too! There! Now they can have unique ornaments and an emblem to ensure the rest of the world knows just how good they are. I have completed several runs of Lost Sectors, now, and got one drop for my Titan. The new arms. Which, by the way, are garbage in almost every situation minus patrolling a destination. So, I've done it. But it's not fun. It's mostly infuriating. I want to play with friends and grind and try to earn those rewards but this is another example of Bungie not understanding their OWN GAME! Aren't we Guardians together? Except for the Crucible, aren't we meant to be working together? Oh, wait, most game modes in Crucible are about team-based combat, too. So why are so many challenges, bounties and, now, Lost Sectors focused on doing things solo? Even fighting against YOUR OWN TEAM because you have to get the final blow on that enemy for it to count for whatever objective you're doing. Can we please have more options for grinding these new exotics? Make it rare with teams and uncommon solo to balance the odds of a drop. I'm fine with running it several times to get that drop to finally happen but it just feels so unrewarding and deflating to waste 10+ minutes for RNG hell to show me all I was fighting for was a chunk of Glimmer in the end. I want to play with friends for these grinds and I know I can't be the only one who finds this less "fun" and far more frustrating.