This expansion has been a PTSD nightmare for veterans. I stopped playing the game for a bit around season of the black armory and picked it back up about halfway through shadowkeeps span and by god can i say this game feels exactly the way it did when curse of osiris dropped. your "difficulty" increase is not an engaging and fun difficulty but rather a tedious grind fest that makes every activity unbearable to play. there is no joy to be had in this game anymore. there is absolutely no reason a patrol space should be a legend difficulty area. along side that, your changes to lake of shadows and arms dealer have been some of the most out of tune changes with the sole purpose of making those so tedious that they went from the best and most fun the being on the same level as the hollowed lair. vanguard playlist basically has no fun mission anymore since it consists of unfun battlegrounds from previous seasons that last too long, strikes that were already unenjoyable, and the Frankenstein's monster that were the reworked ones because how dare we be able to do something faster. crucible isnt fun, trials was somewhat enjoyable but we get maybe 12 days in a season to play that and there is no guarantee you wont ruin it the next time it comes around. iron banner has terrible matchmaking and is the most unrewarding and unfun gamemode in the entire game. crucible as a whole is garbage because of your insistence on objective based game modes being the only things that should exist in your eyes and removing clash for who knows what ungodly reason popped up into your brains. I wont even say anything about gambit. the only reason to really play crucible or gambit for me is to get the old shaders but the drop rates are so abysmal that i would probably have a better chance at getting every raid exotic before i get one of them, let alone the ones i actually want. the new armor system was so dumbed down it hardly leaves room for any sort of uniqueness to it. every build is copy and paste with weapons and subclass things changing. you are actively killing your game and the further you dig this hole the more people are going to cheer when it fails.