It is a chore now. I play less now then ever. It's just less fun overall to me.
For me Destiny 2 has become a grinding mess that is more focused on artificially extending play time than adding more meaningful content to the game. It hasn't helped that Bungie also Quadrupled down on RNG for everything (even a shotgun blast LMAO). And the amount of bugs this season should be downright embarrassing. All hands must be working on D3. I just don't know.
Off the top of my head:
Seasonal mods are specific to seasonal armor (go grind).
Armor stats are low by design and the attributes are antithetical to my character subclass and play style (mobility and strength for my Warlock?-go grind some more RNG).
Mods only work on certain energy armor (go grind some more RNG).
Masterwork armor cost vs benefit. Lol.
In PvP, builds (go grind), OHK abilities and weapons are more important than actual gun play. The connections somehow are worse than ever and that shouldn't be possible. Hit registration continues to be inconsistent from match to match and matchmaking in comp... forget about it. Not to mention every other match is 2 or 1 v 3. Pathetic penalties. Hard to penalize folks with this P2P system though.
People asked for more grind/RNG and Bungie obliged in spades. To each their own. Hopefully next season... never mind.
Would be nice to have an alternative sci-fi shooter to attach myself to for the long term though. God knows I've been looking. Any suggestions? At this point it doesn't matter what platform.
If you just want pvp, the only sci-fi game I can think of that's close to Destiny is probably Halo.
If you want casual face shooty, Borderlands.
If you want a scifi kill kill and grind, Warframe.
God knows what PS5 or whatever Xbox (X?) Has next year. I don't know much on the PC side unfortunately.
But I feel ya. Aside from the milestones, I pretty much only play Destiny on reset day. But Lord, these new Obelisk bounties are crazy grindy. I didn't even bother going for new seasonal armor since the armor I got in shadow keep are better stat wise and already tailored to my play style.
If anything keep the season pass armor since it rolls 60+ but mine is all Void (which I already have).
Masterworking armor is pointless unless you plan to keep it for the long run.
Pvp drives me bananas. Everyone asks for "gun fights" and yet all I ever see are 1hk ability spam and special ammo apes.
Face it, Destiny fans don't know what they want, they just like to yell a lot. Bungie has been working on this game for over 10 yrs and it seems they still don't know what it's supposed to be.