I know Bungie wants to make it a nice big entrance for the new content and a basic intro of what is going on but I want to work on other things first. I hate it when I have to go into the menu and select change character or wait until it launches and then quit the activity to go back to what I was working on first, leaving those who might be in the activity as well if its matchmade.
It is annoying and I know I am not the first nor will I be the last to complain about it. It confuses new players who are working through the new light stuff (if they don't decide to skip it), and annoying for those who want to look at their builds or drop by the tower first to grab some gunsmith bounties.
At the very least make it a prompt when starting if we would like to jump straight into the new activity/content right away.