“Anti fun modifiers” is exactly right. Bungie’s concept of difficulty is to massively inconvenience the player up to a point where the game is utterly unenjoyable. It’s honestly the most uninspired approach to difficulty I’ve ever seen. First of all, you need to be able to become strong. You can just delta-force-level down any progress people make. That’s not motivating at all and it defies the very logic of progress in this game. Secondly, they can’t even beat you by putting you 50 LL under bc most guardians are already used to that garbage so they literally need to slow you or otherwise incapacitate you so they can kill you. And if you don’t realise how dumb that is: Imagine you’re a basketball player and you practise for years and years until you’re really good and then someone says “Ok, the ball weighs 10 kilos from now on, you have to wear a 50 kilos backpack while playing and also people will randomly tackle you and hold you down while you’re still expected to win bc … I mean hey, you did practise, didn’t you? Skill issue??? Thirdly, forced loadouts are getting worse every season. At this point, I have almost nothing I can use. I love my arc builds, it’s kind of an arc season and I have grinded like crazy for good arc weapons with jolting feedback etc. Now, I can’t use them bc the hardest activities, where I need my optimised loadouts the most, are default avant garde. And playing lfg most of the time basically comes down to having only new stuff equipped or you won’t find a post. All this feels awful and they keep doubling down on those same awful strategies. And I’m sure they will continue to do so until the game is completely dead.