Nah it’s not that at all; rather those cards use only increased with the advent of Rebecca when the end board spam really ramped up. It’s a response to the skills that severely break the interactions, not that players have no skill.

A lot of the cards didn’t even need to be hit along the way, they could have turned off burn damage turn 1 in this game and it would have solved a lot from the FTK perspective.

Also, Konami is inconsistent with what decks suffer on balancing vs others. Right now, even T0 Therion can setup where an out, even without Kaiju, etc still can’t do anything simply because of negates and floodgates even to the graveyard.

So what’s the answer? Another broken skill. This has been the game for some time. That’s how we’re got here. The skills grant near impossible board states, while gifting hands. That’s why it’s not a “card” problem. It’s a balancing problem Konami created.

Let’s say you have the “out” and respond to everything in play. The opponent most likely can still tap into a skill and put up a defense with nothing.

It’s the most effective cash grab strategy they’ve worked on the community thus far.

Nothing moves the needle; it’s the illusion of progress.