I love hearing the "stop playing" remarks..... You understand that doesn't solve the issue right? Smaller pools mean a higher chance of blow out matches. The smaller pools mean less match making options..... You can alter the match making sure. Rig it to be annoyingly specific perhaps. But overall. That match making won't do it's work.....without a player pool backing it. Something I learned when I put the breaks on playing this game for a while. Just play to enjoy yourself. No point in taking it seriously especially in PvP......you'll lose your mind that way. Win or lose eventually that reputation marker goes up and engrams will come out like a slot machine. There's plenty of ways to play in PvP overall and trials just makes things a bit more high stakes. You can be the guy who plays sacrificially. i.e. you lay down the damage or force the enemy to react and your team mates (hopefully) mop / clean up (not many do in my experience but I keep trying). Or you can sit back like 3 campers with tents hoping your enemy comes to you then it's a firing squad. I won't argue PvP is a shambles but make the best of it, Bungie has shown they don't care in a consistent enough manner as it is. If you're getting too hot headed. Step away. Care less an crack on with it.