Yes, any average Joe could complete the puzzle if anyone knew anything about it. There's no clues or hints. Nothing has prepared us for anything like this. Bungie shouldn't have hyped up the labs as 99% of us have been stuck waiting for the 1% to complete content that we will never see because it was designed to be another world's first race. That's all it is, just like any raid, it's designed to be another race. Content shouldn't be locked in such a way that the majority would never be able to play it and whatever the puzzle was shouldn't have been made in such a way that nobody has a clue what the hell we're supposed to do. I'd applaud by give for doing something different too, but once again it feels like they put little to no thought into how it affects the majority of the community. The vast majority of us dislike this path as none of us stand a chance at figuring it out, how could we? Most of us just watched videos for the symbol shooting in the volundr forge and thought that was just for a few emblems and even then, I've got no idea how they figured out the order to shoot in. I've googled and nobody ever mentioned the symbols, only the ciphers used to figure out the message on the board at the back of the forge.