The main problem with shifting the rewards over to the chest is the chest lockout mechanism. You cannot loot a single lost sector chest more than 3x in a set amount of time. There's a glitch in Fireteams where you can loot a lost sector chest without ever having to complete the lost sector. To do the method it takes about 30 seconds. Abusing this method you'll get locked out of loot around the 3rd or 4th attempt. Lost Sectors aren't worth doing unless you're catching up on a soft cap, or you're at 305. This is the point where you're hunting blues to infuse into your legendaries. (since blues will drop the same power as legendaries after 276+; it just stops being worth teleporting to the tower every time to maybe be able to infuse a helmet) The problem was the tokens weren't awarded for time investment. Why am I getting significantly less tokens for doing a prestige nightfall or raid than I would doing any other non-strike content? It would make far more sense to add faction tokens as a random mob drop.