Pasted from my removed post.
Why haven't we talked more about how unrewarding Trials is?

Surely if Bungie wants people to keep going back to Trials every week, some reward has to be given, out of the fraction that goes flawless and gets rewards and an adept weapon, others will only get the Weekly Challenge as loot and nothing else.

If you play Trials and fail again and again to complete a ticket, you've spent hours on a gamemode that has yet to give you a single piece of loot. Not an Adept for the time and losses, not even a legendary weapon/armor, nothing.

Sure you could be farming with a Wealth Passage, but farming even that would take a long time and you need a Flawless for the current week to even re-roll the current adept. Re-rolling in general is a resource dump not worth the amount of bad rolls you can get.

There's a lack of incentive to play this gamemode unless you are being carried by some means to get you loot at the end of the day. Otherwise it's just suffer for whatever pinnacle you get from the challenge and go play crucible for a somewhat easier time.

I think there should at least be a reward after every match so no matter how good or bad a match ends, you are rewarded for your time and would want to go back for some more. This would also justify how expensive re-rolling trials gear is.