So what your saying is, they finally figured out how to string together a few missions with coherent objectives that make sense, but they wrecked every other aspect of the game LOL.
I defer to my comments regarding the Bungie Dev interview on weapon balance. These people have no clue what they are doing. They balance for weapon usage overall rather than trying to make each weapon powerful in their designed roles and let players choose their weapons based on playstyle. They nerf everything fun about Y1 and take away the gear that made us feel like gods because they couldn't top any of that gear with weapons/armor in Y2.
Become Legend has been replaced with "Become Addicted - to the grind...."
Yeah, basically. There really wouldn't be any issue if they had only altered/balanced weapons in the PvP space. But balancing weapons to all work close to the same for tweaked PvP damage ratios has completely destroyed some of them in PvE.