You're forgetting how much hate there was towards that grind, people bitched it was a trap used to hide the lack of content. The forever 27/28/29 was real, the invalidation of gear before infusing was a nightmare, new currencies too often with too specific uses that forced an endless grind was attrocious. These werent things to celebrate and they were things that the community loathed. That's why it changed every DLC until TTk, because it -blam!-ing sucked. I would honestly love to see a double blind test where two people who have never even heard of Destiny were forced to play both vanilla versions. It would have to be out of order. So specimen 1 plays D2 first, then D1 and specimen 2 plays D1 fisrt, then d2.