It's more 'solo player' players than PVE. I like aimlessly wandering finding chests. This was a nice bonus. The point is it wasn't exactly a game breaking mechanism so why remove it? The new system helps those that do strikes and pvp a lot. Why shaft the solo player at the same time. Just no need. Why can't we all play the way we want instead of being channelled into multiplayer. With materials dropping in dailies and bounties too material nodes are literally redundant now. Why even have them anymore?