Bright engrams taking more xp to get each time you get one.

Slows your progress to get the next one.

Slower xp without you knowing about it.

Slows your progress to get the next one.

If it takes increasingly and increasingly longer, on top of many casuals not knowing about xp cooldowns since they don't tell you, it's incentivizing you to buy them. Because you can instantly get 3 instead of feeling like you have to spend hours and hours to get 1.

sure she has sparrows and ships but it’s cosmetic

it was something they literally had us chase and collect all of D1 by checking with Amanda and playing end-game content. Now they want you to either buy engrams or slowly acquire them and wish for the best. I don't want to buy a Raid Ship.... I want to unlock it by doing the Raid. They can have all the cosmetics they want in Eververse and it's fine, but they stripped away parts of the game for the benefit of microtransactions.

Them taking it away from Amanda and leaving her with boring and plain ships was dumb. They could have at least given her a new reason to be around, like selling something useful for your ship/sparrow or just some sort of cosmetic outside of the eververse items.