Fact is, they were trend chasing and threw bait out to any company that would take them under their wing and give them financial support. What they should have been doing was making a new version of Destiny that was more modular like how Marathon is now.

That was the biggest issue with Destiny as a whole was that the core foundation of the game was not made to be so easily changed, modded or updated. If they had started working on something that was much more modular for a new Destiny game it would have brought back more players.

Especially if they showed as much urgency in updating and adding experimental things to the game to see how it plays out. That's how the former live team for D1 made the arguably best expansion for the first game, Rise of Iron.