The newest expansion makes 'Destiny 2' a much better game, but there are 5 features that get in the way of actually having fun

Shaders basically let you change the color of your character.

In "Destiny 1," you could use shaders as often as you'd like. In "Destiny 2," shaders became consumable items, which meant you couldn't change your character's colors on the fly unless you collect enough of the colors you want.

Also, there aren't enough slots in your inventory for all of the shaders in "Destiny 2," which means you're constantly deleting old shaders to make room for new ones. And though you can "recycle" 5 shaders at a time with a certain in-game vendor, there's no system for deleting shaders in massive batches: Most players have dozens of each kind of shader, and deleting one at a time takes far too long.

Bungie should go back to how shaders worked in the first "Destiny" game, where they had unlimited uses. This would make the game far more fun, as I'd spend less time deleting shaders, or worrying if I have enough of a certain shader, and more time actually using them.

"Destiny 2" initially killed the "bounties" feature from the first game, which gave you some small rewards in return for completing specific tasks, like killing a certain number of enemies during a strike.

But "Destiny 2" re-added bounties recently, and while more rewards are a good thing, you have to visit certain locations on different planets to pick up all of the available bounties — and since so many bounties reset after a day, you'll be visiting these planets a lot even before you can start actually playing.

This is made worse by the long loading times in "Destiny 2." Bungie should give players a way to pick up bounties without having to visit different physical locations to get all of them; either put them all in one physical location, or let people pick up bounties on their ships, while they're waiting for activities to start.

I spent hours getting all of the Iron Banner armor, including all the ornaments, across all three of my characters. I spent weeks getting the masterworked solstice gear during the Solstice of Heroes event this summer. But when the "Forsaken" expansion dropped in September, all of that gear I worked so hard to get became obsolete, because of the way Bungie changed armor values in the game. If Bungie respected its players and their time, they would find a way to make the armor accumulated in the first year of "Destiny 2" relevant again.

The first "Destiny" game introduced the idea of infusion. Let's say you have an awesome scout rifle, but you just found a new gun in the wild that's more powerful than your favorite gun. No problem! Just infuse that new gun into your old gun, and your old gun will be just as powerful as that new one you found.

In "Destiny," you needed a small amount of materials for infusion to work. In "Destiny 2," infusion is way more expensive, and you need extremely rare materials for it to work. This makes infusion unreasonable, since you'll continually acquire more powerful gear, and there's no reason to infuse anything ever. This means I'm stuck wearing more powerful armor and weapons that I don't really like, but need to wear because they're more powerful than my old gear; I can't afford to infuse all of my favorite stuff again and again and again.

There is no reason for this new infusion system to be as punishing and grindy as it is; making infusion so expensive serves no real purpose of the game, other than to make it difficult to continue using your favorite gear. This system is anti-fun, and Bungie should make infusion a reasonable transaction so people can actually use the armor and weapons they actually like.