I, for one, am glad they removed the buff. I hated having to do Nightfall as the first activity every reset, or else lose out on a whole ton of reputation gains I otherwise would have gotten. That being said, we do need more reputation from better sources now that it's gone. Leveling factions is FAAAAR too slow now. Cleared most bounties for three weeks, did the raid, did the nightfall, capped Strikes and even did extra Strikes and I got about 1.5 levels of Dead Orbit. That would have been 4+ previously. Rep gain before was fine, even with the Nightfall buff gone, but they nerfed the gains too which is just weird.