The portal is feeling enormously better after todays update, I'd say it's finally better than how it launched. Now the only major thing i can think of holding it back is that im still incentivised to either play solo or with a premade team, and all my friends are off the game for now, so basically if i want to maximize my power gain im still forced into grinding solo ops. If matchmade activities actually gave rank a scores by hitting the time bonus then i would be much more inclined to play the game because all activities would be viable efficient power options and i could play the activites that i actually want to play.