Bungie,
You've lost a lot of your player-base over time, which is to be expected for some games, but not for a game of this scale.
More people would stick around if they could play more of the content, but so much of your player-base is solo. You have an abysmal percentage of total players who ever tried, let alone beat a Raid 1 time.
This is something that PSO2 solved 10 years ago.
Just add in audio and visual queues in lieu of requiring mic commands and it doesn't have to be for the hardest level of content, but at least the mid range stuff where actually useful gear and items drop.
Additionally add an active wait for raids/dungeons where you can still run around and do things.
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My god the amount of people this week in contact not even reading the left side of the screen, to see it says to bring bosses together to break shields, is amazingly bad. It took me all of 5 secs the first time doing this to figure it out even w/o reading the message on the screen telling me how to do it. They just keep pulling them way apart.... But maybe those 400 AR bullets and 10 rockets will break that shield after seeing immune every single time /sarcasm.