Is The Portal the problem? My Feedback on The Portal! | Destiny 2 | System Review | Feedback

I wanted to have a discussion and talk about The Portal. Hopefully this video can help drive discussions and help provide a reference for what this experience is like from the players perspective. While also talking about what I think the Devs had in mind for this system.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro and background on why I am checking out the portal
0:59 The idea behind the portal is good. The execution was bad. Paul Tassi and Skarrow also just put out videos as I work on this....
2:04 The portal as someone who hasn't purchased Edge of Fate.
3:30 The idea is really cool and gives players more control over what they do and their rewards.
4:00 The gear available seems limited....
4:50 T5 loot sounds awesome! I want it. But wont be getting it...
5:45 Destiny is a looter shooter first....
6:15 I can't get anywhere near T5 loot without grinding tens of hours if not over a hundred....
7:00 All the "new" loot I get now is worthless....
7:50 The idea BEHIND the portal is great. It just has a bunch of issues...
9:00 This loot isn't exciting and doesn't make me excited to come back and play.
10:20 WHY ARE BLUES BACK?!?!?!?!?!
11:27 I GOT A TEIR 2. But I have ZERO clue where or how....
11:50 The Customization screen...could use some work....
13:05 Solo Ops seems very limited but also the most rewarding even at my level....
13:50 We are only 65 but need to get to 450 to get T5s...after 6-8 hours
16:20 Breaking down the problems...
17:20 The idea behind the Portal was a good idea. It just needed more development...
19:41 The power level grind doesn't really make sense. It hasn't for a while
20:45 Overleveling deltas could be done differently
22:00 Grinding Solo Ops should never have been the most efficent way and its not needed
22:39 One more time.....the idea was good. The execution leaves much to be desired
23:17 The portal + the power grind in its current state discourages me from playing
24:40 First impressions matter and the Portal has not left a good impression on the players
25:09 What I would change
25:30 I would restructure the Portal to be a 3 and 6 man playlist reusing old activities
27:10 Have a baseline setup for each activitiy that you can click and play rather than customize.
28:20 I would do this for a dungeon and raid playlist too. EXPAND THE EXPLORATION SYSTEM!!!!
30:00 Remove the power grind....
32:04 When activies go into the portal...they should drop their updated loot using the teir system.