There are a lot more people in the community, good people, than are represented on the message boards. That's always the case.

Your idea that since the majority of players are good people, all will be well. But much like a raid fireteam, it only takes one bad egg to ruin it for everyone. You could be at a raid for 3 hours with an above average group, then one jerk could ruin it all. Your optimism is admirable, but I'm afraid we would just have more horror stories that would lead to things like this thread. Look at current matchmaking. It's already a mess. I think Bungie playtested it and decided it was a horrible idea.

I just don't understand the opposition. If you don't want to utilize it, don't. Maybe it's far more difficult than I imagine, but I'd be surprised. I just know that I heard similar arguments from DICE regarding various element of BF. Seems like there has to be a middle ground solution. But this ain't working for a lot of folks.

Once again, if there's a broken mechanic that works in the game for a very small percentage of the player base, but leaves a negative impact on far more players, I doubt you would want it in the game. So you join solo que for Raid matchmaking in this perfect world of yours. You get 5 randoms. The Raid is most likely a wipe if the following happens. Here are your odds: -1/5 players aren't using a microphone(not saying it's impossible to complete the raid silently, but to this date I have yet to kill oryx with a mute. -1/5 players doesn't speak your language -1/5 players aren't going to AFK and expect to be carried -1/5 players aren't trolling -1/5 players doesn't know what they're doing -1/5 players sucks at communication -1/5 players never disconnects If any of these things happen, your raid is a wipe. A new player who is genuinely interested in raiding might try out your idea and the bad taste will make them walk away forever. Raiding is kinda the flashy endgame for Destiny and a large portion of our community buys the expansions for it. But if you added this matchmaking, It could potentially ruin Destiny's endgame content for far more players than it would help. -

You make excellent points. But something needs to change if they want more people to complete the raids. Perhaps it's not match making as in Crucible, but an LFG system within the game, making it easier to grab people than combing through third party apps and websites.