It would only become a permanent playlist if trials population would be consistently high every weekend. As it turns out, trials is QUICKLY bleeding players, for a myriad of reasons. Trials just doesn’t have ANYTHING that casuals and pve players would consider it worth their trouble after being slaughtered in game again and again. Upgrade materials are NOT enough. No one really farms adepts, so flawless means nothing to a large amount of the population. They’ll settle for the non adept versions, and you know what? It’ll take probably just 2 weekends to get EVERY trials weapon roll they want, with how RIDICULOUSLY easy (yet frustrating) to get trials engrams. Not to mention that focusing cuts grind to ABYSMAL levels. People that have ALL their rolls will NEVER return to trials this season. Week 1 matchmaking WON’T bring them back. Don’t accept everything streamers say. Freelance on its own does NOT bring these people back into trials. Next season will have 1 or 2 new weapons. They’ll get their roll in less then 2 weeks, then they’re out of trials for the rest of the season again. Case and point… Trials simply CAN’T attract a wide enough audience of casual and pve mains long term. Bungie probably needs to accept this harsh truth at this point, before the playlist collapses again…