I don't understand how you could miss spending 2 hours a day running in a circle in patrol trying to get materials from chests. How could you possibly consider that enjoyable?

I don't think they miss the grind, I think they miss feeling like special Snowflakes. If certain gear is hard to get that means fewer people will have it, which means that the people who do have it get to feel special. People complained about the grind, so Bungie lessened it, so now everyone has everything and nobody gets to be special anymore. That's the real issue here. The only people who still get to be snowflakes are the handful of trials tryhards, they get to feel special, and we've seen how they act because of it lol

its not enjoyable lol. But it made the game worth playing. You farmed because there was an end goal. Now everything is handed to you when you give no effort to try and get it.

I think the grind times are perfect now. The only thing is lack of content and we all now know that was due to the inefficiency of the game engine they created which made it take months for minor expansions. It's the sole reason they had to cut the game apart and sell it as expansions. That is why they created a new game engine for Destiny 2 which should allow for more content with a faster turn around on new content. If destiny 2 has more content, the grind level is fine as it is.

actually, most of their design team quit a year before the deadline for Destiny. They had to scratch most of what they had and build from the ground up. Which is why Destiny had no story and seemed empty and not completed.