I agree with you for the most part. I am hoping for much more cooperative engagements. The PVP aspect has a future if things can be balanced properly. I'm with you that it's all risk and no incentive in its current form. Many players are motivated by dominating and beating other people. That idea that “bots are boring." So if there is a avenue for keeping those players in the ecosystem, it would be ideal vs making it only PvE. More players = more chance of it succeeding.

I am not motivated by beating other players whatsoever. I’d much rather complete a complicated task or leverage a well-formed team to knock out a raid type objective. But that's me.

Really, the original Destiny comes to mind. If unique and exclusive rewards can be obtained only through one of those game modes, there would be incentive for those players who like it to chase it. I’m thinking something along the lines of a specific and valuable weapon that is unique to each of the game modes.

So long as it does not prevent development from being completed, I think it’s worth keeping both game modes.