Trials isn't meant for the casual player. It's designed to be a difficult activity for those seeking a challenge and desire to test their skills. If you want a carefree, stress free PvP experience, go to Quick Play. It's not fair to insist that Bungie make yet another aspect of the game easier or less time consuming, when so much of it already favors players of lesser skill or dedication.
If you want absolutely everything, you're gonna have to work for it, plain and simple. If you want the best shit then you have to be the best, to some degree. Myself and a helluva lot of people had to, so why do you think you shouldn't? Everyone can't be a winner. Let's not undermine people's effort, skill and accomplishment just because some folks want a participation trophy and not want to to put in the time required to succeed.
But I mean, like, you actually don't have to get good at PvP to get absolutely everything (there's not even an achievement related to going flawless anymore, right?). The drop rates are generous enough when losing that just sticking around to be the Washington Generals for awhile will get you everything you'd want.
Anyway, I don't think stuff should be made much easier - and I certainly don't want an equalized 50% win percentage for everyone. But it's hard not to conclude that Trials is stuck in a bad equillibrium where the skill level is dramatically higher than normal PvP. Everybody under 50th percentile gets stomped so hard they leave for good, which makes it that much more difficult for someone to break into the mode. It doesn't have to be that way, and it shouldn't be that way, if we want it to be as accessible as possible. I'd like to see people from all over the skill spectrum play Trials and enjoy it, though I don't want to gift them flawlesses. Making the drops generous for losses is a good start, but it doesn't seem to have been sufficient to get the lower end of the skill spectrum playing despite losing.
(Also, not to turn this into a political thing, but if you're succeeding to this level in Destiny 2, you probably have a host of advantages most people don't have, possibly including age, time to practice, natural talent, prior shooter experience, and so on. You can't pretend like a CoD and Halo veteran that posts 1.75 k/d day one has the same climb to trials flawless that a shooter newbie who averages out at 20th percentile does. You don't need this kind of elitism to justify a trials for the hardcore.)
