The quest isn’t out yet and I’ve only read a bit of the data mined steps, but to be fair it kinda forced us experimenting with darkness in making thorn. And as other people in this thread have kinda said, the path the game chose for us is controlled darkness. Making Thanos proud, we’ve made a two “dark” hand cannons with Malfeasance and Thorn, and now we’re making two “light” hand cannons with last word and lumina. I don’t see guardians being able to go full darkness mode, as bungie likes allowing every player to do everything (lol solo players), so any darkness we use will have to be watered down and balanced with light. All the allegiance and thin line type stuff and player choice seems to be around siding with characters that best fit our moral compass. For example Vanguard v Drifter and now Calus v Vanguard v Drifter. As of now I think Drifter makes the most sense, as he’s survived a very long time and has actually seen what appears to be more darkness creature things, also he’s willing to get his hands dirty unlike the vanguard. Also Calus is just insanely possessive and has a suicidal god complex. He has cool loot tho.