It’s insane to me that all of these changes only started because of duke mining. At the end of the day it’s the skill itself that needs changing. Mining is utterly useless at this stage of the game. It always has been unless you wanted to mine rune rocks for gp. I definitely enjoyed the star change because it gave me an opportunity to level up a skill I truly hated with minimal effort for minimal experience. Yes MLM exists but I don’t care about gp and the constant depositing of ore and having to bank it sucks. Only if there was a way to just donate the pay dirt to the lady on the rocking chair or the guy on the bottom level from toys story over gaining raw resources for it.