Join game. Someone quits 5 minutes in because the other player doesn’t participate. Other player continues not to participate. I still suffer a penalty if I quit. This obviously pseudo matchmaking is obviously broken. There desperately needs to be a player rating system. If one player breaks their oath, stranding the other two, the penalty should be off the table for said remaining two.
More reasonably though, the nightfall should have normal matchmaking with a level requirement instead of a level recommendation. This is how it should have been since D1. The power level recommendation for the normal nightfall is less than heroic strikes. Makes absolutely no sense. A several year study could be made with top scientists and they would still fail to find any sense in why heroic strikes have regular matchmaking but the normal nightfall does not. This game continues to be the epitome of wasted potential.