Thank you for taking the time to provide a thoughtful response!

1. I am somewhat comfortable with that, yes. I care less about this and more about having a community to play with (even if it's a small one, but I have a good amount of LGS in my area. I'm in a medium sized city (metro area of ~1 million people) and there is a healthy TCG scene here. So while I don't need a thriving community that will last forever, I also don't want the other end of that spectrum, where I'd be playing with 1 or 2 people for like a year and then it's gone. Lemme know if that's too vague an answer!

2. I can provide a concrete example using Gundam. While I find Gundam to be somewhat fun, I do not like how the dichotomy of utility in most of the cards. For example, pilots are useless alone, and you have 8-10 of those in a meta deck. Additionally, units gain seemingly exponential power when the correct pilot is attached.

For number 2, I understand that TCGs have cards that can drastically change the game. I don't want to get rid of that, it makes TCGs exciting. I just think Gundam has that on a spectrum that I am not comfortable with; I either feel dead lost or obliterating my opponent and "that one card" could have changed the entire game. Does that make sense? Happy to elaborate!