The forge has many glaring problems, the first being that you have to travel to it on foot every time to start it instead of being able to select it in orbit. Second, because of this you have to go back to the edz anytime you want to stop queuing to pickup a team mate, which is more loading. Third, the projectiles in the forge have a glitch where they don't let you pick them up or don't show that you can pick them up. There is also a bug where they will bounce off when there thrown in the middle. Also, why does there have to be a time limit on everything, an activity can still be challenging when your not up against the clock.
And, please stop doing time gated quests, waiting is not a fun activity that you want to do with friends. We are not clash of clans.
The walk to matchmaking is confusing. Why would they ever do that? The only thing I can think is that it was originally planned to be like D1 Forge or Blind Well. But they got tired of being criticized for having an area you have to slow walk into to try to find people. Then they couldn’t figure out how to fly directly into it and remove the walk so you get half of one and half of the other.