I don’t think you’re entirely accurate there. Things are looking on the bright-side for the franchise rn. Not that the game has a small player base, it does not. But just because they don’t have 30 million active players like before, makes it a bad a game. People tend to like easy games and destiny is about to get a lot more hardcore than it is rn, at least on the endgame side. That tends to scare off lots of casuals that can’t get the sweetest juice out of the game which is the endgame activities. I’m seeing many of my friends that abandoned the franchise 8 months ago and even a year back, coming back for shadowkeep. I guess it’s back to the old famous saying “let’s wait and see”. Bungie certainly does a great job hyping players all the way to the limit of hype levels. They’ve always landed on their feet so why would they fail this time.