Look, I don't have any serious problems with the solstice grind or the bad juju grind other than they're obnoxiously long and require replaying the same activities dozens and dozens of times. However, what does suck is these events being called "celebrations". Like, the game is 2 years old. We've done dozens, if not hundreds (sometimes thousands) of strikes, public events, crucible, gambit, raids, etc. These events come out and the NPCs call it a celebration of our "hard work defending the whatever" or whatever we're being celebrated for. Feels nice, hanging out, celebrating. Except there's no actual celebrating. Instead, it's just a grind to go back and redo all the stuff we just spent 2 years doing. Now, again, this is an MMORG and grinding is what we do here (unfortunately any chance at consistent sorry progression is gone). However, when other games "celebrate the players", they usually do something in the game to make the players, yknow, grateful and happy to have spent this long playing the game. Let's use an example. Final Fantasy Brave Exvius hit its 3 year anniversary. They celebrated by giving the player a metric ton of in-game currency (its version of bright dust). It had event after event that were easy even for the noob to complete and gave unreasonably good loot from it. There were a whole, separate set of daily login rewards ON TOP of its regular daily login rewards. It's a gacha game, so of course they were tossing summoning tickets at us like crazy. All the characters make appearances, there were fireworks. It's been going on for 2 weeks and we have another 2 weeks of planned events, rewards (for logging in obviously), and stuff to look forward to. In short, the Brave Exvius celebration FEELS like a celebration. There are gifts, there's merriment, you get excited to log in and see what happens. Now, let's look at the Tributes and Solstice. We listened to Eva (a side character) thank us for the hard work we did a couple of times (same with Calus, kind of). Then, we get no prizes or presents and nobody else in the tower has different dialog or acknowledges the celebration or tributes whatsoever. Then we have these maximum grinds to complete for the stuff that takes forever and you can't do both at once. Forking out tons of time and resources for tributes feels like I'm buying my own trophies, not like a celebration of my accomplishments. For Solstice, it's a new event we have to grind a bunch of times, along with a ton of extra stuff. The gear we get is green, and we have to work it up to blue, then purple, then masterwork, AND THEN WE GET TO PAY MONEY FOR THE GLOW. Bungie, none of this feels like celebration. This feels like any other pinnacle weapon grind, except we have 6 at once (bad juju and 5 armor pieces) to do and 5 of those 6 are time gated. Look, again, grinding is what we do here. But for the sake of psychological consistency, can you please stop telling us that this is a celebration of our accomplishments? This isn't a celebration, it's just another quest line and a very long one. I bet you'd let a lot less crap from the players if you put a different carrot in front of us. When one attends a celebration, the expectation is to kick back, chill, and celebrate. Say the tower is in danger from malcontents in the EAZ and we need this super special armor to fight them. That prepares us mentally for the grind. We jump in expecting a slog and it's less disappointing that way. It's weird to me that a freemium mobile game does celebrations better, but if solstice and tributes weren't deemed as celebrations, it wouldn't be comparable. It'd be a other grind event in Destiny vs an actual celebration in the other game. Either give us a real celebration, or stop calling these events "celebrations". I wouldn't be this irritated with yet another grind if that grind weren't hidden behind the delusional idea that I'm doing this to "celebrate" myself. It's like being 10 years old, and your parents saying you're getting some rad gifts for Xmas. You open your presents and it's a pair of underwear, a pair of socks, and a shirt. Your parents then say you have to shovel the snow in the driveway 80 times while wearing your new socks, shirt, and underwear within the next 27 days and THEN you'll get your new Playstation. Not much of an Xmas is it? At this point, all Eva did was remind me that I've been grinding the same things since day 1 lol.