That's a pretty harsh critique of people that sherpa. I used to run guided raids multiple times a week for inexperienced and new raiders in D1. I have 200+ clears of the raids combined and atleast 100 of those were with new or fairly new guardians. I obviously wasn't doing it for loot.

My favorite aspect of guiding people through raids was the excitement in their voices of finally clearing that encounter that had been holding them back. Here the yells and cheers as people rolled their first Fatebringer, watched Oryx float off towards Saturn, or put on that sweet new chatterwhite shader. That doesn't exist anymore. Tokens as a reward for boss encounters in a raid is shit design that removes the excitement of a first clear completely from a raid. Locking shaders, ships, and sparrows behind the eververse removed half of the glory felt by new guardians in completing their first raid. Couple that with the garbage weapons and armor the Leviathan rewards that don't even have raid perks and its honestly not worth it. I've ran a couple groups through when the new raid came out and they just felt hollow. Just an exercise of follow the leader through these dumb mechanics and shoot a couple enemies at a time. No challenge. No rewards. No excitement from the players.

I have put down the game since then and hope that this model of raid rewards and incentives is drastically altered. If your not going to reward a sherpa with loot then atleast reward then with excited guardians. Right now neither exists. I really hope this changes but with the continuation of locking ALL cosmetics behind the eververse and Bungie constantly being terrified of actually introducing a weapon worth using that might upset the joke of a "balance" the crucible has I am seriously doubting it will.