I would say that claiming that the "hassles of forming a group are part of the endgame" is a bit disingenuous since there are no tools whatsoever in the game itself for forming a cohesive team. It's an overly political response to a problem that I am sure Bungie just doesn't have a real answer for. I am mostly of the opinion that provided it is optional everything could have some sort of matchmaking but that having said that I also will never use it myself. Not at all. I think rather than randomized matchmaking for everything a much better response would be to create better tools in game for finding people to do specific content with, or any tools in game for finding people since right now there are none. But in all honesty that would require a lot of work, and I just don't see Bungie doing that. Not for this game, atleast. I'd say hopefully this is something bungie hopes to address down the road possibly in Destiny 2 but, frankly, I just don't see current day bungie being that intelligent. I very much get the sense that the amount of people and concern and priority for this current game is pretty small. It's a skeleton crew coming up with quick fixes and half measures to maintain as much interest as they can while the next game is being developed, hopefully taking all the bad decisions from this game into consideration. But at the same time, MMOs and diablo clones have been relying on poorly disguised skinner boxes and RNG for a long ass time now. And while a fair amount of people find that approach pretty vapid, there are still tons of people who don't seem to be aware, or possibly just don't care. It's entirely possible that this is bungie's end game. And as long as enough people don't catch on they can still turn a profit. It's very clear that this wasn't the game we were promised. But that doesn't seem to stop people from playing it. The whole plan could just be smoke and mirrors. I hope it's not, but at the same time, that hope is pretty easily exploited, apparently.