This is one of the reasons I feel opening up the gear investment paths significantly so you can invest in multiple sets for different looks or activities across multiple characters. Extend the grind too much and too much time and effort goes into a single character, for the vast majority of the player base. Folks who can play more will always get to max level, max Light, earn a pinnacle weapon, complete a quest, etc. faster. No amount of artificial grind will stop that. However, the teams at Bungie seem to be trying to slow these players down at all cost. This, unfortunately, is not impacting those players; it's affecting the average players. Until they change how they view things; they'll keep, unintentionally, harming the wrong group of players in a doomed effort to slow down a very small group of players that can put in 8 or more hours a day.