Passage of Persistance should just be get 7 wins and you get the adept. Losses don't hurt in anyway, and you don't have to do any card resetting until you get the adept. Once you get it, you reset and get another adept roll after 7 more wins. This would keep people in the playlist until they get their god roll and make the mode much healthier.
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looking at it from OP's perspective is alot of lesser players put more work in to just get 7 wins them some do going to the light house 10 times. Bungie could easily just make all trials and crucible gear confined to those activities.