Yeah, I have some great lag GIFs lying around waiting to be made...
I wish matchmaking received a little more attention. Pubs are fun for me because of how random they can be even if I lose more games than I win. However, most of the time teams vs pubs is a total stomp. It's the equivalent of Omnigul or Undying coming up in a Roc strike. Bungie is making tweaks to PvE to make certain draws more attractive. Do the same for PvP.
Ooh, that reminds me of a pretty good lag one I saved from our Gaf-training yesterday, might throw it up in a bit. Love me some gifs. Curious about what PvP MM changes you'd want to see? There are a lot of issues like you said.
Pubs are boring to me because the game loses any semblance of strategy and team work, although I can understand the manic charm other people might enjoy. On the other hand, being in a team steam rolling pubs match after match (like yesterday) is tons of fun... for a while. It can grow kinda stale when there's zero competition since it has the same effect of marginalizing strategy. Of course you can still stick to strats, give call outs etc. but it's only natural for teams to lose interest in that when every match is a 10k+ blowout.
Not sure how other multiplayer games foster better competition? Ranked matches or w/e?