Isn't it a bit shameless to self-promote for this topic? "its not a problem because i'm so knowledgeable about their convoluted and anti-player system." Labeling it as trivial yet arguing FOR it makes YOUR argument trivial in-kind. Your second argument is no better... "Grinding has been a part of Destiny since day one of D1." So your overall argument is that its always been this way and it would be easier if we just lay down and take it? Do you not see the irony that you are defending a grind feature for a game that has been constantly on the brink of shutdown since D1? You do realize that they are only adding this in to force time in-game, yes? The reason ppl have stopped playing is because its too much of the same + a bleak future, not because there isn't enough to do. They would be far more likely to accomplish a far better result by improving their loadout system than forcing this BS on us.

This was NOT self-promotion. It is no wonder that you are complaining. Your game history shows that you hardly play this game. You are so confused that you are now #muted so that I don't have to read any more of your ridiculous interpretations.

You basically say: it's not a problem to reinstate a hamster wheel, because you must learn how to use the hamster wheel. Right? It's still a hamster wheel, and that's what people don't like.

As a "Veteran" player that you say you are, you should realize that leveling up every season is not worth it. Even KWTD, why would I want to level up again once I hit max light? You cant over level for activities like Gms anymore. All its doing is adding more grind. Artifact power means nothing when an activity caps your power at 1980. No levels above that will do anything. I've played since d1. Had an account on a friends Xbox cause I didn't have a console myself. Every season id have to regrind my power to max I lost more interest because its repetitive season after season. With them removing it I felt it was a game again, not a job to stay relevant to keep doing endgame content. I have a job that takes a majority of my time, I don't want to come home and log into another one. It takes the fun out of the game. Power grind at this point is just artificially inflating content. When we get minus power on activities, grinding power level is already meaningless unless they remove the inability to over level for endgame content, but they wont because people that have lots of time on there hands will have 20+ light over Gm difficulty and then claim its to easy.

As a veteran player I know that matching the recommended power level for Master lost sectors enables me to complete them flawlessly. Moreover, grinding provides a lot of resources that enables me to obtain exotics armor pieces for all characters while playing only one character. GMs are one of my favorite activities. I plan to gild the title with every expansion as I did again this time.