You are on point with your points... But the game has evolved. Would you rather them to blindly think what is right with destiny 2, or test out scenarios with a game that has never really had a life like this on consoles? People did their job, regardless how extreme some of the venting was, a message was sent via forums all over. The old saying "silence gives consent" is one to live by and with the open forums... there was no silence. YouTube/streaming equal revenue. Listening to the those people make sense because they are also a voice. Be it good or bad, they tried everything. 9/10 times though, I never saw a patch that catered to the elite players... and in fact, like the last patch, moved a lot of those players away especially in trials with seeing the user base drop by over a hundred+ thousand players over a two week period since the last patch. That is not catering to streamers. Regardless, lots of people love this game. There is a lot of pressure to get the sequel right... and you do not get it right by not testing in a live environment. Did they do things wrong? Yes... But at what cost? Yet to be seen because we have not seen absolutely anything of destiny 2. Match making for the harder events should not exist. Just imagine the forums of people ranting over raids, nightfalls of year one, and trials... Those events are meant for a stronger team to accomplish. Putting it into their hands to match make makes more sense then putting it into the games hands because that door is to larger of a world towards complaints. It makes sense to me, but I can see the other side of that coin... but remember, the people that seem to have issues building up enough "friends" to not rely on matchmaking is probably in that position for a reason. There are more negatives than positives for matchmaking on harder events and the option is also locked in this game ie no team leader to kick the person who is either just being a punk, try hard or annoying. Anyways... I still enjoy the game and truly hope they do fix the faults of the game. I truly hope they do not lock out year one gamers that did not by the dlc like they have. What you buy should always be available and every dlc needs its own space with their own bounties and weekly activities so that who ever bought the vanilla game, has the vanilla game. I hope they continue with a rotating meta because it makes pvp more interesting and challenging. I do not hope for forced metas like this last patch ie special ammo. Etc etc... we all have our lists and different views... But if this game never changed, there would still be complaints out of the @$$. Great post though. Conversations pieces are always nice to have.