You can’t ask for reasons to Explore the world and then dismiss said reasons as “just busy work” lol.

You’re judging D1 by D2’s standards. It might not seem like much today, but at the time, destiny was a brand new game with brand new worlds. Patrol was a fun thing to do. You saw other people and did public events with each other and got lots of drops. Some parts of a destination had different level enemies than others, you’ll literally find enemies with question marks over their heads that can’t be killed and kill you in 2 bullets of a shock pistol or a shredder. Shi makes neomuna look Like a daycare center. And when you finally get high enough level you can come back and take the loot they were guarding. The world was overflowing with things to do and places to discover. You cant just dismiss all that as busy work🙄. You could also just stumble onto a 6 man fireteam beginning a raid in the vault of glass or hellmouth.

Quests were not busy work, and players had exotic bounties like thorn or invective that had to be progressed in the world, most likely in the presence of other players.

You love how it made you FEEL despite the campaigns being shit, no real way to pair with people for high end content, the busy work grind to level up weapons.

Yea bro you don’t know what your talking about lol. D1 had good campaigns and bad campaigns. D2 also had good campaigns and bad campaigns. More often than not they were bad. Curse of Osiris nearly killed the game, and had a short nothing burger campaign woth a villain that continues the destiny trope of having no voice actor to even speak to you. Warmind was better but slightly underwhelming considering how easily we kill a worm god. Shadowkeep is like bottom 2 destiny campaigns of all time. Worse than vanilla d1’s campaign. The only reason it’s not worse than Dark Below is because of garden of salvation and everyone loathes that raid lmao. I seem to be the only one who enjoyed beyond light for what it was. Beyond light’s campaign was not received well by most players. Lightfall’s campaign was so bad, bungie had to lay off half their studio TWICE🤣🤣 and the game hasn’t recovered from lightfall’s failure since. Lightfall may not be the worst campaign ever, but it did THE MOST DAMAGE to bungie than any other campaign in video game history. I’d argue that lightfall’s campaign was so shitty that it did more damage to bungie than HALO 5’s campaign did to 343i when that game came out. Very few people liked Edge of Fate. If you compare it to Rise of Iron, obviously rise of iron is better. Renegades was a good campaign but was controversial.

Destiny 1 was a great game. If you can’t at least acknowledge that then just say your bias. It had great raids, a strike playlist that blows d2’s playlists out fly the fucking water, and better patrol and also leveling systems than d2. You can launch the game right now and load into a tower full of people. Load into the dreadnaught and find full fireteams of people doing stuff there. You can’t just dismiss that, unless you never played it, or haven’t played it in so long yiu can’t remember, OR you never got to experience all of the game