If no, post what you think needs to change below. Some suggestions are in the poll here, but I am curious nonetheless.
Edit: I made this poll because most people I play with will do couple hours worth (or more) or either Reckoning or GP and only get one or two weapons to drop. So grinding doe a decent hand cannon or grenade launcher (It's DPS output is crazy with the right roll.) is more frustrating than it is rewarding for them. Seems not everyone has that experience, but some do. RNG is quite the thing.
I already know the weapons are good and it makes players want them. But this post is more pointed at the actual drop rates. Is 10 GP matches worth one weapon drop?
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Hmm, "all of above"? No, I don't contradict myself. We have two instances. One is Reckoning, which is "different". While Reckoning is somewhat better than Lost Sectors farm (I think 1 gun per 5 runs is my best), it may be quite biased (out of my 50+ R3 runs and hell if I know how many R2 (there is no tracker), I got zero Spare Rations, but quite a few of other weapons (as sword isn't gun:))). That includes GL, burst/auto rifles, and swords. Gambit Prime itself is far more rewarding, with a caveat. I got a lot of curated SMGs (15) and shotguns (7), a bit less non-curated ones, quite a few scout rifles (I think at least 12), pistols (thought they may be "milestone" rewards as I tend to play Gambit without watching my bounties, I simply liked process), even sniper rifle (without invading:)). What's the caveat then? I did Collector's triumph, even got discount code for t-shirt (can share if anyone is interested and Bungie "Rule of whatever applicable" allows that, haven't read it yet if it exists at all). But guess what, zero Spare Rations as well. Not just curated - any. Suum cuique, but for me this is big "WTF" asked with Donald Duck voice. Solution to deal with it is voiced just below by Neolcarus1 and already implemented in Black Armoury - just freaking allow us to pick particular reward and farm for it. Yes, I haven't found my "god roll" in any BA weapon after 100+ forges on Blast Furnace alone (and guess 200+ total), but it's fair: I bring frame, I temper it, I got gun. Not armour, not different kind of gun (only as bonus), but exactly what I wanted to make. Why this is not the case I don't know. But with my RNG luck (or lack thereof), for 700+ hours I got only two Halfdans, for several hundreds of Gambit matches played and 7 Infamy resets I got only 7 Hazard of the Cast (and 6 of them are at very best mediocre), while I got more Bygones, they all are pretty meh. All this starts taxing, and in fact, after my 35 runs in Reckoning tier 3 to farm any reaper chest piece I lost any motivation to play this game. It is just exhausting, not rewarding with stuff you want (reason I like Black Armoury), and if Bungie thinks I'm going to play 700+ hours to get two Halfdans more, well, they have to think again. tl;dr Is Prime rewarding in terms of dropping you loot? If you mean general Prime/Gambit loot and if you play a role (minus invasions - never tried that, I mean k/d 0.3, whaddaya expect?), at least in my case, you'll get relevant gun. Relevant suit isn't important - only my titan has some armours, other classes don't, yet they earned few curated (and non curated) items. If you just "playing the bounties", then I don't know. Never tried slacking through. Only several times, when I played as Collector I tried to minimize my combat participation to prevent other synths popping-up, guess what - didn't helped. If you mean particular loot, then in my experience - totally not. 24 half-banked medals, 0 curated Spare Rations. Call it whatever you want, but this isn't anywhere near "bad". I mean I hit my targets more often in Crucible, than SR drops. :D