The Niobe labs puzzle would have been fine if all the forges had been released day 1 of Black Armory. It would have given the average player something to do right from the get go, and the elite (I use that term lightly) players would have been hard at work on this ridiculous puzzle while the rest of us were still working on the other three forges. Instead, Bungie feels they need to time gate and drip feed every little piece of content, essentially starving its playerbase for something new to do. Then they release the new thing with the surprise of, "Just kidding, 99% of you have absolutely no chance of ever figuring this out."
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No. This puzzle should have been used for a raid exotic quest. This was a disastrous idea for what they are using it for.