One thing I've noticed in this game is that there are so many barriers to getting into the action. When you boot up the game, you go to a ready room, then when you want to launch a mission you go into another ready room, then you have to load into an arsenal station, and then you generally have to skim past a few filler levels until you get into the action.
I'd love an option that would let you quickly get into the action. A new tab on the mission screen, skirmishes, that drop you into the action almost right away into arena-style combat. Based on tier and difficulty, monsters killed drop tokens that you can use to trade for prize boxes that contain rarities and other stuff. That way, farming other methods is still necessary to accumulate crowns and materials, but those who want to quickly get into intense action and get rewarded for it can do so.
a button to join a random party into the clockworks would do, I guess. your suggestion is practically promoting soloing.