After 500 hours I can say the single biggest flaw of the gameplay itself, is that mostly it's highly cheesable, and as such not challenging enough to not convert the whole game into a huge grindfest, with some fashionframe on top.
And mostly I mean the general simple missions. Especially for new or below 300 hours players (and they are the huge majority, if I'm not mistaken). A lot of people will disagree with all this, but mainly because they are veterans here on the forums.
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Not challenging enough, you are saying the game is easy. I honestly do not know why other misunderstood this claim.
And you claim it is specially easy at the start. Well, that makes sense. Any respectful difficulty curve starts easy.
Note: If most players are newbies, as you claim. and newbies leaving is a problem, as you claim. You are saying that warframe has a high player rotation.
Perhaps you are saying that you would prefer a more steep difficulty curve? I would expect th