This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You are aware that those guys were the reason that D1 was a trash fire, right? That everything wrong with the terrible year one, which was much worse than D2 year one, was [i]because[/i] of them, right? Jason Jones is the reason that we got such a shitty game with a shitty story which resulted in Joe Staten leaving and Marty O'Donnell getting fired. Aside from that uninformed statement, every complaint you listed about Destiny 2 was a bigger problem in D1. You need to look back at D1, the game was shit for a whole year with absolutely nothing to theorize over, no loot to chase, terrible meta, mechanic-less raids, no characters to love, the second worst dlc (The Dark Below), the third worst dlc (House of Wolves), exotic sunsetting, etc. Taken King, Luke Smith's expansion, addressed and fixed a lot of these issues (kind of) but it created an even bigger problem, content droughts. Between TTK and ROI, there was [b]ONE[/b] update which added a strike and a mission or two. It was heartbreaking to wait [b]MONTHS[/b] for such a pathetic content drop. Then ROI hits, ROI was an expansion smaller than Shadowkeep that came with a pretty nice raid, a mediocre story that was only enjoyable because of the surrounding lore, mediocre weapons, the worst meta in Destiny history that resulted in the death of competitive pvp, SRL(a terrible event that no one played because it was horrible at worst and mediocre at best), and an overall disappointment (Don't believe me? Go back into posts from that time and see all the people calling it terrible) until the Age of Triumph update, which was completely unrelated to ROI and only happened because D2 was launching in the following September. Destiny 2 with it's big expansion a year and smaller seasons in between is a much better design decision that will only improve from here on out. Seasons prevent content droughts that TTK and ROI had and progress the story much faster than the two completely unrelated tiny dlc's and the big expansion model they had previously. They also allow more frequent scheduled sandbox updates which shifts metas around making the game feel more fresh. Sure there are bound to be some shit seasons, but even though the worst season (Worthy) was awful, it was miles ahead of The Dark Below and Curse of Osiris. TL;DR: You must have not played D1 outside of the Age of triumph or if you did you have no memory of the state of the game or it's insanely mundane grind that gives Curse of Osiris a run for it's money. D2 right now, as bad as it was with worthy, was miles ahead of a majority of D1 and I hope you look back at the posts from that dark time to get a nice feel of how good we have it now in comparison.