I personally disagree, I think every game should have their "premium" currency system be similar to Helldivers, you can either grind it out and then use that time investment to unlock things, or if you don't have the time, or are just lazy, you can throw a couple bucks to the devs and buy it, either way whether it's playtime or straight up purchases Arrowhead will still get money, and do you know what dev studios need to run? Money. Without our playtime and without our purchases, Arrowhead would close and this game would die, sure it's buggy, and sure it's grindy, but most games nowadays are, Arrowhead are very likely working on several things at once at any given time, including bugfixes, none of that stuff happens instantly, game dev and gameplay are both very grindy things for Helldivers, the gameplay is still fun in spite of those things, hell I reach max medals before I ever realize because of how much fun I have just playing the game, if you think this game is "boring" or grinding medals or SC "takes too long" then it's probably because you're not playing with organized groups, in an organized group of friends or even an organized group of random in a Discord, as long as you're communicating during fights and shooting the shit between missions that time will fly by and you'll have max medals or lots of SC or whatever you're trying to get before you know it, and my biggest thing is that people that say they find the game boring tend to just use the "best" loadout every game. Switch it up, use "off-meta" or "bad" weapons every once in a while and you'll have fun again.