The disconnect exists because the game model breeds and perpetuates it. They can’t acknowledge and please everyone. It’s impossible. The game has always had an identity crisis. It tries to be too many things at once. Its activities vary so wildly that they are different genres of game and yet the current model is “do everything or miss out” and that’s just not reasonable, practical, or desirable to a vast majority of players. The game is and always has been incredibly rigid and has unrealistic expectations about how and why many people play games in the first place and the PvE/PvP connection seems about equal parts valuable and problematic, in which case is it worth it? As long as it stays like this, there will never be community cohesion and the same issues will persists and manifest in different ways. I’ve been saying this literally for years now. Destiny. Great universe, stories/lore, music, combat. All of which are the most consistently positively praised things about the series and yet the things most commonly criticized about the actual game model remain unchanged despite those criticisms. It’s a terribly rigid and unreasonable game model that is a detriment to all those good things just mentioned. And yet the game model remains largely unchanged. It’s activities need a massive injection of variance and to lean more on it’s open areas. It needs to let go of the very static nature of how it works and the game in general needs MUCH more player choice in how to pursue and earn things. Player choice is how you alleviate SO much community strife. At this point though, approaching what.... 7 years now? I have no hope that it will ever improve. It will always be the greatest game that COULD be instead of the greatest game that IS. There will always be fun to be had in a very general sense, but this universe will continue to be squandered on this awful game model.