I can not agree more. As a hardcore PvE player, challenging PvE content is some of the most enjoyable stuff in this game but sadly it is hard to come by. Nightfalls do an outstanding job with GMs and Masters and the new Lost sectors are good, but somehow the Raids, which are in theory the endest of endgame content, end up being the endgame content with no optional difficulty modifier. Day 1 raid experience is awesome; you get your best team with your best builds and you go as hard as you can, learning the mechanics as you go and maybe with some outstanding comprehension, teamwork, and overall skill you will complete it in 24 hours and get awarded an emblem. The pinnacle test of skill to anyone who claims to have a competent team. It is literally some of the the most fun this game has to offer. But then after those 24 hours it's like you just woke up from a dream... the encounters feel way easier than they should. Doing raids after day 1 makes you miss day 1 when you actually felt challenged and accomplished when you finished, and makes you disappointed that you will never get to experience the raid again the way you feel like it was made to be. I know this sounds very arrogant. To be clear I am not saying raids should be harder in general; I am well aware of the problem of raids in Destiny 2 currently being way too mechanic heavy for the average player and team to be reasonably expected to be able to do them. I know this is why people don't do raids in D2 as much as in D1. My proposed solution is this: Part 1: Make the NORMAL raids easier by having less mechanics than they do now or by simplifying existing mechanics. For example, the plates going away in the final boss of Garden. Take it out completely. Give the person calling eyes in Consecrated Mind a solid 5 more seconds to call them out. Make the voltaic on the ground not cause a wipe. In the first half of crypt, make the servitors no longer block the terminals. In Security, make it only 3 panels on each side of the room and not 5. At Atraks, remove the replicant mechanic and the operator completely. At Nukes and Taniks, either remove the mechanic of losing the augment and let whoever takes it first able to just keep it OR remove the radiation mechanic. Part 2: Give hard mode raids these mechanics and add a contest modifier. Maybe it should cap your level at 20 below, maybe the cap should be adjusted, I don't know. But there should be a cap on your level and it should be something below every encounter. And like I said, add the mechanics back. Because honestly, doing these raids, it feels like things like rebuilding the platforms in garden, having 10 panels to look at in security, Servitors blocking terminals in Atraks and security, the replicant debuff mechanic in Atraks, and the radiation/disbled augment mechanics in Nukes and Taniks are all hard mode mechanics. They feel like they are added on to make the encounters more mechanically challenging than they really need to be for average players, BUT for hardcore players these added mechanics to stay on top of should be there to turn on if you seek the challenge. And of course this hard mode should have a different loot system. Maybe from hard mode you choose something out of the loot pool from each encounter instead of something random. Or hard mode should have exclusive weapons.