One thing for sure is if I'm going to wipe out oversized slug face in armor, dried corpses or insect men or rusty robots, I better look fabulous when doing it instead of being an abomination of mismatched suits or armor where the color can't do much to save it

You can do all that without spending a penny though.

By burning myself through bright dust bounties and other bounties to go through season ranks instead of playing the way I want if I don't want to miss one cool eververse item that happens to be a available for dust on that week with halved reward or pay if I don't want to wait for god knows how long it will be available again. Really, they can add bright dust in all activities for a small amount instead of relying on bounties in the entire game but no, let's make bright dust bounties give less and you still grind the bounties for season ranks so why bother?

Previous seasons will drop in the next seasons eververse engrams, if you just wait. Plus you don't have to go out of your way to do bounties. Most of them literally just require you to play the game.

So wait for the season engram and tell me, what effective way to gain exp for the engram on par with the bounties? Playing the game doesn't give the same pace with burning myself through bounties and waiting for the engram doesn't encourage me to keep playing and with rng drop where more often than not you get shaders and something that usually look not so good, warframe looks more interesting to play