I've been playing since this game launched with about 3500hrs of play time, own all the expansions, done a massive chunk of the titles etc, but EoF is the worst DLC they have ever released. The story was absolutely boring, matter spark annoying and Kepler feels so empty. The power level grind from 10/200 to 450 is absolutely insane, Since this game launched all those years ago I've had no issues reaching the max pinnacle cap on every update fairly quickly, that grind did take a while, but it was a hell of a lot faster than the current grind and was somewhat enjoyable, and this was across all three characters. The grind now is way too much, I'm at 322 currently, and I'm already burnt out, I would have reached my pinnacle cap long before now normally on all characters. The portal is good in theory but extremely poorly executed, you just grind the same missions over, and over and over until you literally can't take it anymore. The old original pinnacle system was far superior even if time gated, you at least had to do strikes, nightfalls, dungeons, raids, crucible and exotic missions, so there was always lots of variety and this made the game fun and made the grind way less painful. Now we just run the same missions in portal over and over for what? Tiny little light increases, it's just not worth it. The game world feels more dead than ever, which is ridiculous as you have plenty of locations to explore, but of course none of that gives you any gear to progress your light level so all of that is ignored. The game has so much content that has been removed over the years that they could have brought back for the portal, they could have rotated missions on say a 2 hourly basis so you at least had some variety. We have all these planets and content on them, so why aren't these being used for +1 or +2 drops, I wouldn't mind jumping from planet to planet doing the odd public event if they dropped loot that progressed my light level and I get to hang around locations with other guardians. This game after all these years just feels absolutely dead, in players and in content. And don't get me started on unstable cores, the cost to upgrade gear is astronomical, they get rid of upgrade cores which worked fine, and shards but then add this crap!. It can cost thousands to upgrade old gear if they are from a low light level, and as someone with 36 builds over the 3 characters, the cost horrific, so that's more grinding of the portal to get gear just to dismantle into cores. Unstable cores should have never been added, if they want to keep them, then the upgrade cost needs to drop by a good 80%.