Online Spartan Ops Difficulty Option?

Hey guys,
not sure about you but I would really enjoy the ability to play a game of spartan ops with 3 others on legendary.
I get that I can do this if I invite my own people but sometimes that isn’t possible.

Anyone else down for being able to choose the difficulty of mission you want to search for?
Similar to Reach’s firefight difficulty voting, but I think choosing what you want before finding a party would just be easier and make less people unhappy.

Spartan Ops could definitely use some modifications (xp system rehaul, ability to enable skulls, penalty for dying and/or ability to fail if everyone is dead, ect) but this could really help and not harm any ideal that 343 wants to follow.
Hell, if enough of us agree they might actually do it (jkjk I wish, RIP Bungie)

Any thoughts?

I’d prefer it if Spartan Ops went Legendary by default in Matchmaking and drop down to Heroic when there are two or less players in the game compared to its current state (three or more = Heroic, two or less = normal).

I doubt we’ll see the options to punish deaths & the inclusion of skulls, so making death happen a lot more quicker will at least force people to change their strategy a bit.