With hardly any drops at the end of these missions. Bungie I want guns over an abundance of armor.

No sir, for many players it is HARD! Your version of hard may be impossible for some or most. Just because you find it easy does not mean it actually is. I like math, I think it is easy, I like engineering, and physics of collisions, and thermo-dynamics (aced that final). Most people do not think those things are fun or easy. But they are to me. Nothing like designing a regenerative steam power cycle. Toss in a nuclear reactor and I am happy to work on that for weeks/months/years without even a lunch break. Anyways, the game is overly complicated, and too full of junk to keep track of what is good with which build or super or perk, or other weapon or armor mod or.... It could use a major simplification, if for no other reason, balancing would get easier.

"Difficult" is a sliding scale; one player's sweat is another player's cool breeze. For a lot of us in the middle and low end, the difficulty of content we're being asked to participate in (Master and Grandmaster) is out of our depth. You wouldn't be wrong to call it a skill issue; but skill, too, is a sliding scale. Destiny 2 has (or had) a pretty disparate player base, lots of different players at lots of different levels; the current system feels like it's tuned for hardcore players and grinders. I'm glad you're not having a difficult time; many of us are. I agree with you about the tedium, I think that's pretty universal, all of us are feeling frayed from the tedium, but a lot of us are bouncing off the difficulty level, too.

Both. The game has been made more difficult in the worst possible way…and killed the power fantasy.