I know this is feedback that people and Bungie are already aware of, but I have finally experienced it for myself and wanted to provide my POV. I just played trials for the first time since D1! I had a lot of fun for a while, I really did. My team had no plans of going flawless and just wanted to have fun. After 3 consecutive reset passages, where we didn't actually play that badly, we got 2 straight wins! Great! We worked hard and it was paying off. Nearly at 3 wins and our first actual reward! We then go steamrolled 4 times in a row by teams who just never missed shots. I find playing against people I can't even compete with frustrating for different reasons, but we should all be ready for that in the pinnacle PvP activity. I'm okay with being steamrolled! What feels SO soul-destroying however, is that after 3+ hours of grinding this game mode with strangers, we have LITERALLY nothing to show for it. I have more than 30 tokens and nothing to do with them. Winning two games took SO LONG for me and my chill, lfg buddies, and it took a tonne of concentration and focus to do. We tried our little hearts out too in the following stomping grounds, and that would be fine, if we had SOMETHING to show for our efforts. I'm exhausted mentally and physically as I type this. I haven't concentrated on PvP in a game to this extent since D1, but it is not a rewarding exhaustion. I feel like I've wasted my time, and that is an experience I really can't bring myself to participate in again. This is why the population is so low, because no mid-tier players or lower is stupid enough to think even trying this gamemode is worth their time, because it isn't. I came to Trials today for fun, and I left drained and so un-motivated to ever try it again because there are far more teams at any one stage that will steamroll me than teams I'll be able to compete with, because teams at my level know they won't stand a chance at being rewarded. And now what? Do I have to grind another 3+ hours and hope I get matchmade against the other 3 non-pro teams matchmaking? Hell no, I do not want to do that again. Some sort of bounty, for example, that gives an actual trials reward would make this far more worth our time every weekend, and would probably convince more people to dip their toes in and invest some time with a participation reward in sight. Of course, I would love the flawless experience to be more rewarding for the sake of the top-tier players, but I can't write on that as that's probably not something I'll ever experience. Trials should not be for the top-tier only. Flawless should be for the top-tier. The intimidating and inconsiderate barrier between entry and reward should be lowered so that anyone can have a shot of gaining something from playing this. I know stuff like this is already being considered/worked-on hopefully, but I wanted to get my thoughts out there. Hope all reading this are well, and thanks Bungie for your continued work and support on this game.