I tend to agree with you. Although if you find a raid group for normal mode, you can add them as you play through HM. The loot does suck pretty bad. It was a bad move on bungies behalf to make the loot feel underwhelming. Also time gating the exotics the way they did, means not many options for exciting RNG event. Idk, I have rented BO3 and depending on how that goes I might be cutting back quite a bit on destiny. Feel free to add me on X1, I wouldn't mind helping you through the raid.