The game isn’t pissing off new players. It’s pissing off veteran players. Players who realize the game has no loot worth chasing. So Bungie is desperately trying to keep us distracted with lots of menial tasks so that we don’t notice, Problem is too many of us have played too many other GOOD loot games to be fooled by this. Or to find this unending item level grind enjoyable. TLDR: THIS GAME IS NEITHER FUN NOR REWARDING IN ITS CURRENT CONDITION. So people are quitting in frustration.