You're actually incorrect in a lot of ways. I'll start with Raids. At any given time in the game there has only ever been 1 relevant raid. 1 at a time that levels you/drops end game gear. So not sure where you're being this two raids from? People quit vault as soon as Crota came out because you got over 30 from the DLC lol. Skolas was not a raid. However it did drop max gear, but more importantly etheric light. That's the only reason anyone did it because they wanted to upgrade vault era gear to max. Ok now, more to do in Y1 you say? Let's go down the list besides the obvious of finishing the story. -vanguard and crucible bounties -you mentioned farming loot cave. I'll give you that. It was a thing before it got patched. But do you remember everyone raging about farming materials like spinmetal? Want to go back to that? -the queen event for a couple weeks...lul -once Dark below came you could run into Blades of Crota and Eris had bounties. They became extinct when the Wolves came -House of Wolves had wolves prowling and a few bounties. Also now an extinct event. -Trials debuted -one raid at a time, then PoE during HoW. -could not chose what you get from faction rank ups -strike playlist was plain. No modifiers. Just pure grind. Currently -there is still only one raid that is relevant. You said year one was better with 2 raids? You can do them all now if you want. And Kings Fall gear gets leveled to max without etheric light grinding. How about that. -PoE is still active and drops max -Nightfall still viable for loot. And you actually get a double drop with the bounty. -crucible weekly bounty drops max -elite weekly bounties, drops max -Skelton keys allowing you to get the loot you want. Oh and they drop at max -trials is still around. Drops max -in the spirit of blades of Crota you can go take on taken corrupting the land which brings me to my next point -3 of coins. You can now literally farm for that exotic you're missing. You use to only get them from nightfall, raids, and crucible...sometimes, and at complete random. That was better though right? -remember when factions took so long to upgrade? Now you have rep boosters and can chase the good roll if you want. -you can still rank up Eris & Petra's faction and now they give you loot! We should go back to being able to buy a class item from them huh. Variks can also be upgraded and drop loot along with his PoE stuff. -there are a multitude of Iron lord bounties every week. Shiro's give huge XP. You can grind out 3 artifacts per week. -Archons forge drops pretty high and a lot of the armor that drops there actually looks great IMO -Kings Fall brought raid challenges for even more loot. -Kings Fall brought hidden exotic weapons quests. We should totally go back to RNG from turning in bounties. But then we'd have to go see him to turn them in again. -treasure box's for many different activities. So much more to do in Y1 huh? 1 raid (at a time), grind mats and engrams, vanilla bounties. You might have liked it more for whatever reason but please all with this mentality, stop spreading opinion as fact.