It doesn’t feel like that though. For example, trying to earn money and progress by going into the cave or whatever to fight nets you almost no money gains and eventually your gear can’t keep up.

As someone who doesn’t enjoy farming sims because they feel like work, it just doesn’t feel like the game cares if you progress in other ways. And it may not penalize you, but a lot of the other options feel tedious because of the drastically lower rewards you get from trying to earn money through those activities.

Thing is, that’s ok. The game just isn’t for me and I am fine having moved on.

Yuuup. All these calls to “fix it at midterms” are just going to keep happening until more people see that our system is not working for them in a more drastic way.