They knew the numbers would be horrible for this expansion, so they used their big brains to figure out that they can just gate everything that people actually want to do by making you play the campaign first, making you level up first... all while telling you power level doesn't matter. It's pure, evil, psychology. They're gaslighting us, non-stop. On the plus side for you, I turned the game off after the first match since exploiters are running around using abilities while abilities are turned off and Bungie is looking the other way, just like they're doing with the Raid cheaters.