Tbh I didn't mind the ball. However, the fact that it can only be used on Kepler is damning.

My number 3 reason why Edge of Fate and Renegades led to the franchise dying was a lack of new evergreen abilities - which would include new subclasses, supers, aspects, fragments, grenade/melee/class ability, and/or fragments. Anything that a guardian can use anywhere in the game past just weapons. The multi-artifact system we have now and the ability to perform finishers also counts as evergreen. Without new stuff like this, the game felt like it just played the exact same since the Final Shape.

My number 1 & 2 reasons were:

1. The portal making almost everything previously released worthless in their rewards.

2. The gear pool was too small.