I can't be too surprised and I'm note sure why people are upset, especially if they've been around since D1. We had another "competition" for scoring back in D1 during the Prison of Elders where Bungie spotlighted the highest scoring team every Thursday. Now, Bungie said that to get a high score you'd have to slay and get a fast completion time. Not true. Not true at all. In fact, for the most part, you could take your sweet time, heck not even kill everything. Turns out that Bungie made it so activating your super and making orbs of light were worth a fair bit of points. There was also a mechanic that netted you less and less points the longer you stayed in, after a certain time your score would gradually decrease but even that didn't matter. Want to know why? Alpha Lupin bubble Titans. You see, back in D1, Alpha Lupi bubble Titans could pop a super and make 3 giant orbs, which would give you nearly 55% of your super. So 3 Titans chaining 3 bubbles over and over again made it so you always had a super and spawned orbs. Players could easily get the Gold medal score which was nearly 100k in THE FiRST ROOM in little to no time at all and mind you there were 6 rooms in total. You could get a score so ridiculously high that even the deminishing return didn't matter. Bungie highlighted the best scoring players and then stopped after the second or third week when other people found out what they were doing to get such a high score. Didn't matter how fast you ran it for the bonus competition points if people could obliterate your highschool by chaining bubbles. 🤣 Point is, these scoring competitions don't mean jack. People are always gonna cheese the scores.