"When you get more CE with crowns, you're throwing your time away collecting the money. So it means you need MORE hours to get that value back. And while you're right about being able to play for longer it, it ALSO makes the grinding worse. And you simply cannot have the best of both worlds without having to pay for an elevator pass."
So, you're saying:
1) Players can't play for as long as they'd like, and
2) Players are forced to spend too long playing.
Who's trying to have it both ways now?
Honestly, why do you think people want to play in the first place? You have said many times that they wish to play because it is fun. Well, if that's the reason, why would you view it as "throwing your time away" to play a fun mission/gate that doesn't give you as big a profit as RJP or FSC? The point of playing a mission/gate is to play the mission/gate. That's what the game is about.
Again: you get ten level's worth of totally free play every day. If you would enjoy playing some more levels after that, right at that moment, buy CE with cr and play a few more (making a small profit). If, on the other hand, you finish those ten levels and find you have had enough--perhaps you are tired of "grinding"--then take a break and come back to it tomorrow. What's so horrible about that?
When you get more CE with crowns, you're throwing your time away collecting the money. So it means you need MORE hours to get that value back. And while you're right about being able to play for longer it, it ALSO makes the grinding worse. And you simply cannot have the best of both worlds without having to pay for an elevator pass. And while to the endgame players, grinding is not much of a huge problem, it's the tier 2 who has to be forced to stop playing so they don't waste their efforts on buying a new pack and go back to jello again just to get a meager changes to craft over 100K worth of equipment for the next tier.. And it might not be jello that they have to play, but it's certainly it's part of the levels with the highest crown dropping of tier 2, along with the RT.
Still thinking I'm wrong?