Qualifications up front. I have 1145 hours in Destiny 2 at time of writing. I have completed every raid and dungeon available to a player in the last 2 years of content. I have earned my GM title across multiple seasons and outside of some master raid clears I have not missed much content in this game over the last few years. I am also writing this as the season/episode content that will follow the conclusion of TFS begins so perhaps my opinion will change although I doubt it.

Final Shape is abysmally bad. I've never seen a poorer example of how to construct a compelling story and frankly the people who are widely praising this are so fervent that I am beginning to doubt whether or not every bit of praise for prior expansions is an extension of this Stockholm Syndrome style relationship Bungie has cultivated with the fanbase for D2. It's become my theory over the last few weeks that Destiny fans, myself included all recall the game fondly in a version of it that has not existed ever. Red War was terrible, every currently available expansion runs the gambit from terrible to just ok, and the one piece of content anyone ever talks about as good is Forsaken which is a piece of content that has not existed in the game for almost two and a half years. Frankly I'm beginning to doubt any of this was ever good and that we all just live in our nostalgia for a time when the game was good