Yep. Totally fair point. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, May 20, 2016, 00:25 (3203 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

There are a few legitimately good mission in Destiny.

• The very first one, of course.
  
• "We've Awoken the Hive!"
  
• The Sword of Crota
  
• the first Vex mission (complete with no time to explain!)
  
• the assault on the House of Winter's Kell
  
• The long Cabal mission where you travel most of Mars to activate the Spire.

All of those have decent length or challenges... Far too many of the rest of Vanilla Destiny's missions were very quick things that immediately ended with a countdown and not near enough story progression. Compare that to...

• Pillar of Autumn
  
• Halo
  
• Truth and Reconciliation
  
• Silent Cartrographer
  
• Assault on the Control Room
  
• 343 Guilty Spark
  
• The Library
  
• Two Betrayals
  
• Keyes
  
• The MAW

...and Vanilla suddenly doesn't look all that great at all. :(

If I could trade two or three Destiny missions in for Strikes I'd do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't object to the occasional Cayde's Stash or similarly fun and interesting mini-missions, but I think Destiny would benefit greatly by having longer, Halo-like levels instead of all the bite sized content we got in year 1.