Actually this is a little wrong. I don't think the thread creator is 100% right but I don't agree with what you are saying either. D1 final mode was not great and maybe most of the people you played with loved it, but a lot of people did not. Close to the end of The Taken King expansion they obviously started taking the game in the direction that it sits now. Obviously not as extreme but they obviously listened to the whining of casual players wanting access to all content, wanting all exotics and whining about having to "get in a group" to get Black Spindle, not liking being killed by god rolls Grasp of Malok, Blind Perdition, or Doctrine of Passing. Basically complaints that "Bungie isn't friendly to solo players and "the RNG sucks because I can't get past lvl 229 in the raid (people's lack of patience). So you saw high level drops increase across all content, the implementation of 3 of coins and their effectiveness increased in more content, more vanity items available in Eververse for complainers (remember when they put the full taken armor in Eververse that you use to only be able to get from PoE?). The point is that the game went in a everyone gets a trophy shit-show direction in year 3, and a lot of the complaints during year 3 were not just "nerf this", but "why is Destiny so easy now?"