I absolutely loved Destiny until I didn't. It was wierd, it was like one day I stopped having fun and finally saw the game for the hamster wheel it actually was.
I loved the looting, I loved the shooting, I loved the seemingly deep lore. I loved the raids, I loved Trials, I loved Iron Banner.
One of my favorite gaming moments was going through Vault of Glass - after several heartbreaking runs where everyone was getting Vex Mythoclasts and Gjallarhorns I would get nothing. And when I finally opened a raid chest and received that sweet sweet Gjallarhorn at 4:30 in the morning I yelled at the top of my lungs. My wife wasn't even mad becaue she knew how much it meant to me. Using that thing in-game made you feel so cool.
Then they took it away. They promised this journey of 10 years where you could look at your loot and there would be a story behind it and for a time there was. Then they started vaulting everything. I remember getting a perfect roll for Fellwinter's Lie and they decided it was too fun and nerfed it into oblivion.
There were also fun ways of getting around limitations in the game. Two-manning Crota's End was challenging and fun and didn't require LFG or bugging people to joi your party. Then eventually they saw fit to make doing stuff like that impossible. It was weird how anti-creativity they were at times. Loot Cave was fun as well. It was harmless and kind of fun to mindlessly shoot at the cave with like 4 others just chilling. They took that away too. Just dumb.
I guess if I were to sum up my feelings about Destiny it was one step forward, two steps back CONSTANTLY. What good was grinding loot if it won't matter after the playerbase had too much unintended fun? Or vaulting paid parts of the game becuase they couldn't manage the bloat of the game. Just realling mind boggling decisions by Bungie and it's sad because I was all in on this concept. And they were determined to make me feel nothing about it - intentional or not. It's really sad because Destiny could have been one of the all-time great franchises.