I have pretty much 1-1.5 hours every before and after work to get ready and then wind down. My off days are better spent on chiller games like dark souls 3 and now dark souls remastered or even gta5 story mode. I’ve beaten the new content aside from the raid, I’ve played most events that I could participate in before my work schedule got busy, and now all that’s left in the game is the power grind to get tier 5 gear. A system which at the moment largely just favors streamers who have endless amounts of time and lots of dedicated people to play with. I like the portal even though I thought it was the worst thing added yet to Destiny 2. I like armor 3.0 since the game had no incentive to ever pursue new gear or armor besides for cosmetic purposes. While the game was also plagued by elitists who amassed their triple 100 stat armor ages ago and have been using the same armor pieces with different ornaments religiously. The old armor system made trying new exotic armors tedious and complicated since everyone was attached to their god tier armor and swapping out one piece with a new exotic with different stat allocations messed up everything. The new weapons are great, new content is good, but all the events lasting for extremely short durations and power grinds being tediously long and hard just kills any desire I have to play the game with the limited time I have. I often hear “Destiny is the only game I play” but what about people who maybe want to play something else with the few hours a week they have to do something like that? Bungie needs to stop catering to the no lifers and streamers who will play the game so much that they beat everything and complain that there’s not enough to do. There’s just very low incentive to play Destiny 2 for someone who has little time to game since the game is designed to be very time consuming. Everyone keeps parroting that this game is dying when in reality, people have lives outside of Destiny 2. Bungie is designing a game at the demands and expectations of the 1% who do nothing but play destiny, but fail to draw in the casuals who find more enjoyment playing other games for a few hours a week than logging on to complete slow and menial power grinds that other players have already completed and now brag and boast about incessantly. If bungie wants player counts to go up, bungie needs to make events last longer and make grinds and xp gains far easier and far greater so challenges and rewards can be completed much easier. FOMO as a motivator does not work anymore. There’s way to many games and way more ways to spend your spare time than losing hair over trying to compete challenge and grinds in more and more limited time frames.