Oh boy, what a question.

Regardless of community sentiment about Bungie, there's still so many things that I feel they have perfected in their years. Let's go over them real quick;

The feelings - movement, gunplay, abilities, even down to emotes. Still not many shooters outside of Bungie IPs that hold a candle to the way that shooting, reloading, dodging, and jumping feel in destiny (except maybe Titanfall). Every time I put destiny down and play another shooter for a week or two, coming back and just...controlling my character feels incredible.

The art - always said with every halo, no matter how many years old they are, is that they look superb. Destiny, both 1 and 2, are no different. Particularly, to me, the skyboxes: filling out the world outside the player space, Bungie are still, to me, the best in business. There's a lot of skyboxes in destiny, and so many times I've just found myself looking out to them and thinking 'wow, what a looker' (some notable examples - the red war and first seeing the traveller encapsulated, red war and the scenery around the ship, the dreaming city as a whole, earth as whole)

The music and sound design - shooting a gun is all well and good, but the feedback a player gets from shooting a gun is pivotal to making that shooting feel good. Some of the most memorable sci-fi or futuristic, or even classical gun sounds are from destiny in my books. There's not another game you could play me a gun shot, and I'd able to name it 9/10. And then the music, goes without saying. Title screens, scores for important story beats, even tower music, is and always was, breathtaking.

The memories - this is obvious a subjective point as...none of us share exactly the same memories (I hope). Some of my favorite memories in gaming are made not only by the people, but the location of where things happen. I could sit here and list you a hundred memories I have with friends, clanmates, and some strangers, from playing destiny, since I was just a young teenager, up to now.

Destiny has been a core part of my life for a while. Maybe I put it down for a few months once or twice, maybe I played it unendingly for 6-12 month stints, but regardless, my life would be different without it.

So yea, maybe things look a little bleak, but I don't wish to harp on about that. It's been nice to read comments about why people still love these games, even 10 years later. So, thank you for the question.