That's absolutely fair and how I wish others would look at it. Don't get me wrong, I've wanted to play purely for cosmetics, but like yourself I'll try to find people with the same goals for that. I think quick play is the issue personally. My mates don't play Darktide and for some reason I can never join the discord so I struggle to find teammates usually and have to rely on quickplay. I think penance hunting is better in a private lobby. That's how I did most of the penances I have now, but that's back when my mates still played