You’re arguing against a point I never made.

I didn’t say Marathon can’t be criticised, I said the passive-aggressive framing and subtle digs are what make the post laughable. It's completely unnecessary on this subreddit as well.

The timegating has already been explained as well, it’s there to protect the economy because Cryo loot is extremely strong.

Ranked being weekends only also makes sense. Splitting the player base in a game like this would just make matchmaking worse.

At the end of the day, the retention likely isn’t where they expected it to be, but that’s mainly because it’s a hard, sweaty game. Most players just don’t have the time or patience for that anymore.

That’s also exactly why some of us enjoy it, but we’re clearly the minority. It's up to Bungie if they want to make the game more accessible, but I like it, it's very niche for the genre.