Completely agree here, though it is disappointing. All the original content - missions, strikes, maps - they are still there and playable in some form. Heroic and Nightfall are endgame features and add such teir to the most recent expansion. As such, if you have not got content permitting you to teach the required level, you would never be able to complete it anyway. I fully appreciate the lack of mission modifiers, however. That's just plain annoying but was part of the year 2 change, not the TTK update (nitpicking, I know, but still the case). I don't pay crucible myself but I can also appreciate that the random selection of mode is also frustrating. If O ever have to touch crucible, I tend to stick with control and not having the option to only pay control would bug me. Nonetheless, while some alterations are a pain, especially for vanilla players, endgame features always rise to current expansions in games with expansion models. While Destiny is not an MMO, it shares some of the same models, this being one of them. All games have a lifespan. Once I complete something, I tend to set it aside and then maybe play again later for nostalgic reasons. If I do not want to purchase expansions, I stop playing. You've had a year for Destiny before these major changes, and if you came really late to the game, it is on part your own fault for lack or research and patience. Had you waited until this version launched, we would not have so many complainers. It's not like these changes were a surprise. Add to that, you never actually own a game anymore. You lease the right to play it for as long as the developer sees fit. Online games could have their servers sit down tomorrow and it's tough. For other games, all it takes is one update to potentially sit the game down, though as it doesn't cost developers anything for offline games this doesn't happen (that I know of). Sorry for the wall of text... TL;DR - all the original content is there. How you access it and the levels may have changed, and endgame teirs have moved on, but it is still there. You ate not locked out of/restricted from playing the base game.