I can guarantee it would not be this way had Bungie not scrapped all the good things that ended up in D1. They made a major mistake. It does not matter if this game was started and developed shortly after D1 Vanilla. Through the D1 lifetime, they should have been checking in to see what was working and what was not and adjusted accordingly. Hell, Luke Smith is credited for TTK. He couldn't take those lessons learned to the D2 team which it sound like he was leading at the same time? No, Bungie brought this on themselves.