Bungie devs explicitly said during the Into the Light live streams that the shiny variants were to be [b]plentiful[/b] and when using the term, "rare," they initially meant rare as in, "I was here and I played during that very short amount of time," not rare as in incredibly bad drop rates. Everyone keeps confusing this. Now that we're seeing just how untrue that was, we're all distraught and disappointed in how little we're rewarded for such a large amount of time invested. It seems like either a drop rate bug or an intentional sad attempt of keeping player numbers high until The Final Shape releases. Either way, what was said during the stream and what we're seeing now are very much different.