Pretty much agree with you on everything except your implication that HoW was less than stellar (which you later stated was some of the best time in Destiny - which it was - due to Etheric Light). HoW was the "Golden Age" of Destiny thanks to Etheric Light whether you liked the brief HoW campaign and PoE or not. Etheric Light made all the raids relevant so everyone was running them and it therefore gave us true weapon and gear diversity and it was FUN! Truly, for my money, HoW or rather the period of time represented, was the best state or Destiny and it is the reason I plopped down my $80 for the CE version of TTK. All they needed to do from HoW was 1) add more stuff for me to shoot at 2) more maps and 3) new level cap. Literally should NOT have touched anything else. The Y1 economy was light years better than this shit show IMO. From a pure timeline perspective, it is AMAZING how much of a nose dive this game took. In 1 expansion - ONE - we went from "The Golden Age" to "The Collapse" in Destiny terms. It wasn't even a slow decline. Just BANG - shit show. Add a Y2 version of Etheric Light (sorry people who cling to this weak minded thought - but Y2 does not equal Destiny 2 and this is NOT an MMO or RPG for that matter, it's a FPS so like ANY FPS I expect to have my full arsenal until Destiny 2/end #final - also at the thought that Y1 weapons were all gamebreakingly OP - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAH) which would make Y1 content viable again and BANG - you go right back up the charts I bet. As far as Crucible - fuq - way too much there to address than I have time or energy for right now lol. This game has turned into a comedy act that I don't care to watch anymore. I used to play this game close to 5 hours a day when I would get on. Now it's maybe 5 hours a week and I'm a Day 1 player. They really took a festering day after heavy drinking beer shit all over this game. The ol' screen door as it were.