Hmmm, so you yourself state that the STORY leading to the exotics should be the emphasis behind adventuring in Destiny. As such, do you perhaps think that player focus and Destiny's reward system should revolve around real adventure while playing Destiny vs simply the carrot (i.e. the gear drop) at the end of the public event/strike/weekly/NF/raid/match? I know I sure as hell do. As such, I believe your angst should be directed at the messed up RNG reward system built around nothing more than a constant grind of repeated, UNCHANGING content that players need to incessantly wade through all in the hopes that -- FINGERS CROSSED, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- RNGesus eventually blesses them their hundredth time around. Your fury over Xur is completely misguided! In the end you are right: THE ADVENTURE, THE STORY -- NOT THE GEAR -- IS WHAT MATTERS! It's lack of emphasis THROUGHOUT Destiny is the real villain you should be railing against! You can't tell me that "I got Ghorn to drop for me after my 45th HM Crota kill" is the "story" Bungie should be intending people to tell!