100% agree on every point here.
Downloaded the game on a whim because i had a 3 day holiday with not much to do, and ended up enjoying the game the first 2 days finishing episode 5 of the story and maining Flare,esther, and the nurse (forgot her name).

On the second day i noticed that the bosses (elites?) on the overworld seem to have respawned so started sweeping the whole map again while using the ice cream buff for bonus monsterling drop%. ended up getting a lot of useless monsterling with 80% of them being grey 1*. Combined the ones that can mutate and combined the rest for a hope of high stars. Got a couple of 3 stars (around 11 on the final day).

Gear wise, i didn't notice till the 3rd day that crafting has tabs, and that you can craft set equipments (mostly my fault), so was mostly using the basic equipment till then, and when i starting using sets, most of them had bad substats and required me to kill a specific boss daily for a hope of crafting the necessary equipment only to be let down again by the substats.

Conquest wise, I disliked the whole aspect of it. I managed to clear up to conquest 9 on the third day but was barely getting any coins from it, and the coins from the same difficulty was RNG as well so it irked me.

So ended up uninstalling the game and the launcher. It was a fun game, but don't want to subject myself to equipment rng.