They can do so many different things to fix the issue, many games have this issue where it's been a long running series, how do they make it accessible to both new and longtime fans? Well there are many ways, like adding new story missions for new players, or a comic book style recap where players can just read the events and story easily IF and WHEN they want to. There are plenty of things they could do, but they won't. That doesn't excuse the fact that for a new player, this game is completely terrible story wise. Even for long time players, the way Bungie try's to tell the story has always been done poorly, even when the story itself is good. Sure a returning player will know strikes are more like memories of events that already happened, but from the perspective of a new player it is absolutely an issue. The game has a major time problem with its story, lots of mmos have this problem, but Destiny's is significantly worse then the others with it's content vault.
Really I haven't played for months/years nice try all my characters are 1320+, I was doing VoG last night
Really nice attempt to try and invalidate my completely valid thoughts on the game though.
For PVP it has major issues, like not being updated in over a year, or reusing old maps that were balanced and created with a completely different meta in mind, particularly D1 maps. Nerfs are still happening across PvE and PvP. That's been a complaint since D1, people have been asking that they balance the two separately. It's terrible when they nerf something that works find in PvE, and is broken in PvP, and now its suddenly unusable in PvE, how is this still a problem?
Believe me I could go on for days with the problems the game has, I agree that it's a really fun shooter at it's base that can feel incredibly fun to play. But it's really lame for any fan of the game who complains, and then is dogpiled by fanboys who attack them for 'not really being a fan' or 'probably being someone who hasn't played in months/years'. This is Wasted Potential The Game, and the fanboys only make it worse by rolling over and accepting everything Bungie does,, maybe if the community ever actually complained about the many issues the game has it would've actually gotten better by now. Something Fans have said has been happening since TTK, "It's heading in the right direction, I'm sure by next update it'll be a good game"