Gaming

Destiny was a beautiful game until the Taken King. The original enemies and map design made replaying strikes not a hardship, and while the Taken King had new enemy types, it didn't completely lose the plot.

Basically everything since D2 launched is worse. The levels don't have the same attention to detail, the maps and worldbuilding all feel super generic, and they just churn through the same guns and armor with minor perk changes to take away old ones and lock you into a treadmill, with a grind that's not fun because the content feels like shit they threw against the wall.

Then they take away shit you paid for. I bought the original game happily, and was mildly disappointed, but played occasionally (unlike almost 1k hours in D1). Then I come back later and it's free to play, the content I bought is gone and replaced by trash that's mostly locked behind paywalls. Throw in their "we refuse to allow you to play on Linux because fuck you" and characters and a world that make no sense and play like shit and there's nothing to go back to.

Blizzard is FAR worse. If you want to compare Destiny 2 to say WoW, you have to buy WoW for 12 months upfront to get below a yearly cost of full Destiny 2 content. And that does NOT include new expansions, which you have to pay separately for. This does not include all the microtransaction cosmetic stuff which tends to be actually worse, and game time token concepts for what amounts to pay-to-win stuff. If you stick to the official sticker price for Destiny 2 year of content, for $100 you basically get everything worth anything at all. Majority of cosmetics that are actually interesting are available in-game either free or for bright dust from the store (over time).

So, no, I'd say this is not even remotely similar.

Edit: to add to this; Blizzard vaulted a ton of content in WoW (originally in Cataclysm and then over time when they reused various pieces or blocked it in some ways); the grind treadmill in Blizzard is absolutely ridiculous compared to Destiny - consider if every expansion vaulted ALL of your existing gear and you had to basically start over. A lot of things are extremely expensive game-time-wise compared to Destiny - Destiny basically deprecated RNG in favor of fairly predictable crafting system and bad-luck protection; in WoW the "bad luck" protection comes in the form of Auction House with astronomical in-game price tags for loot worth actually having (pushing people to buy game-time tokens to auction those for ingame currency). So yeah, on the level of scumminess where sexy gatcha games are 10/10, Blizzard is like 8, and Bungie is maybe around 4.

In my time with the Destiny games, I couldn't really tell you what was happening with the story aside from some beats in the original campaign of Destiny 2, so I didn't even see buildup. And on top of that, the new encounters and such are just the same enemy types time and time again, so I couldn't really see a difference from one season to the next apart from the occasional boss fight.