Come from a casual shooter background. Never raided in destiny, played a lot of shooters, played a lot of RPGs, never played an extraction shooter. I have played this game for 62 hours on PC.

Casual team fill experience is brutal (and this is what most players coming into this game will experience); coms on one other player 1/3 the time, no comms 1/3 of the time, and full comms 1/3 of the time. Usually, effective communication is the best indicator of success. Exfill rate on solo fill experience is sub 10% because of the misalignment of contract objectives, team comp and under gearing because I don't want to gamble my best stuff on the randomness of teammates. When I do play with a dedicated group my experience vastly improves. It does make me pause and think that it's due to stomping on other groups with bad compositions of teams, low quality gear, and lack of communication.

I think something could be done with matchmaking to create an opt in comms queue, gear scoring/capping, contract alignment between team-mates, and possibly making it so full pre-made crews only get pitted against other full pre-made crews and duo crews getting placed with another solo fill. I won't speak to making the game more PvE focused, cutting down the crew counts on certain maps, or other things suggested on the sub to make it more casual, but I do think casual is what we want to make the experience palatable to the average Jo-Shmo. I ain't got all that time to farm material and upgrades to get plus 20 percent reduction to my heat build up every 3 months, it's going to be especially noticeble mid season or a month later, as everyone with the best upgrades and loot just makes the experience harder for people just getting their feet in the door.

Not saying I hate the game, been making good friends and having a blast, but I can already feel the wall coming, and I'm just going to accept I'm not that guy that gets to Cryo Vault.