I finally reached my breaking point after another frustrating session. Now I too as a veteran player have stopped playing.
As of today I will monitor the TWAB and other sources for news about lowering the difficulty level. There has to be major changes for me to return, not just nonsense like "We're increasing the damage level on x weapon by 10%."
This game needs a major overhaul. The BS started last season with Heist Battlegrounds. Since then it has become a lot worse. There is no excuse for putting hard to kill enemies in a patrol area and ruining Legendary lost sectors for the majority of the player population, let alone the poor design of other activities.
I sincerely hope the daily population declines drastically over the next month as did in the second month of Y1. Bungie has to be shown that we have had enough of their wrong direction.
They're not going to change the difficulty at all, maybe in Final Shape but then maybe too many people will not come back. Definitely not myself. I have a dedicated team to play with so the difficulty as a whole isn't all that bad but the game has become a steaming pile of gigantic tedious horse sh!t that lacks any critical strategy and excitement.
I decided the same thing today! Ran avalon and got kicked by a weasel code, then ran the new nightfall and hated every second of it. This game is done until a major overhaul, you're absoloutley right.