You no longer need to do anything to earn great weapons in the game. The Garden of Salvation offers nothing powerful or interesting that you cannot earn elsewhere as far as perk combinations, archetypes, etc. Trials of Osiris offers what when you go flawless? An armor glow that vanishes WEEKLY?
What happened to those end game grinds. The Fatebringers, the Adept flawless weapons (Solarity would make the PERFECT intrinsic perk), anything? Nightmare Hunts are pointless, the raid is fun a few times but offers no incentive to return, The Ordeal Nightfalls are great and are a great way to earn endgame currency but Grandmasters are what, more currency?
The raid seal is tough to earn... Until you get a team together. Why has Bungie become scared of putting powerful, unique, or exclusive items within the endgame?
If you aren't good enough to earn something or don't have the time or don't have the team...it shouldn't be made so that everyone else has to hit the brakes and give up engaging end game so you can keep up.
-
They even removed all emblem auras so you can't even show that you did nice scores or anything...