There was nothing wrong with Pantheon's formula. All Rot9 had to do was the exact same thing. You drop Spire on opening day, Ghosts a week later, and Pantheon the week after that. Simple. You get your recurring logins, we get new content every week as well as plenty of time to play the content without the timegate between Prophecy's launch and the release of Edge of Fate. You couldn't even do that much right. You couldn't even copy an established winning formula. Go ahead and meme me with the "see you in Kepler" responses, but I'm dead serious when I say I haven't preordered Edge of Fate yet. This is the first expansion since Shadowkeep that I haven't preordered, and it's because Bungie keeps doing pants-on-head [redacted] stuff like this and making us do the pinnacle grind every season, AFTER changing it for the better in Lightfall. The game is actively getting WORSE as we go now. And I have zero desire to regrind all my armor in a game that's actively getting less rewarding every season. "Check out this cool new weapon stat! You deal bonus damage to bosses when your stat goes past 100!" Awesome, this upcoming contest raid is scuffed now. Either the DPS checks are tuned assuming 200 Weapon and anyone who can't grind that out before it launches is trolling their fireteams by joining, or they aren't tuned for that and all the NEETs who have the time to grind it out get to pass the checks for free then whine on Bluesky that it was too easy. 200 Health is now the cap and continues granting defensive bonuses past 100? Great, my current Resilience set is now useless in any content harder than a playlist strike, because all that damage output will be tuned assuming you have 200 Health and appropriate defensive mods. Or cranked through the roof regardless, under the assumption that you should just be killing everything before it can shoot anyway. I've already told my clan I'm uninstalling after Rite of the Nine is over. They asked very nicely for me to run it with them, and to an extent, I legitimately still enjoy Destiny's gameplay. But I just can't with whatever [redacted] keeps making all these boneheaded decisions. They're the guy who should've been laid off, not Salvatori.