Great post and articulate, well done mate. Trials was horrific this weekend because of the lag issues. My team just gave up and grinded the bounties as red bars, hits not registering and seemed like v same team every other match. That map only highlighted the problem with its design flaws. Even regular crucible used to be fun to chill and play to win but not get stressed. Now every game feels like it's do or die. Not remotely looking forward to Banner and used to be the highlight. I'll give it a go but can predict rage everywhere coming and drop outs and one sided matches. The nature of Rift being 100% needing to be team based and focused won't help and will discourage single players. Please don't ruin Banner Bungie! Hate to say it but only answer maybe to take out the disc and put something else in and it's up to Bungie to earn our trust again before we put it back in. With no new PVE content the game relies on PVP now. Solutions listed all over this post and I agree we need Private matches and connection based matchmaking. Not confident anything will change but from the comments elsewhere a huge amount agree.