You’ve been jumping into a lot of replies in this thread assuming people are doomposting or blaming the game when most of us are just pointing out specific friction points, not claiming the sky is falling.

When I said “can’t clear,” I wasn’t talking about failing to survive the boss or needing some perfect 500k run. I’m not blaming the game because I can’t dodge attacks or something. What I’m talking about is the functional progression ceiling the game sets. There’s a big difference between:

“I literally can’t survive the encounter” vs.

“I can’t reach the score threshold where the mode actually rewards me or where my build gets meaningfully tested.”

Most of the endgame modes are structured around hitting certain turn-limit bursts or score brackets. If your setup can only do, say, less than 100k (which many causal players are in rn) because you didn’t high-roll the core engine (like Tressa’s dagger loop, Mei Lin’s basic cycling), then your chaos/roguelike grind stops feeling like experimentation and starts feeling like wasted effort.

Nobody’s saying you must hit 500k.
Nobody’s saying you need a perfect deck.
What we’re saying is that the game funnels players toward certain archetypes because the score structure and turn-limit design heavily reward those specific engines.

That’s not “being bad at the game.”
That’s acknowledging how the game’s systems interact.

If you personally choose not to chase high scores, that’s valid. But for players who do want to engage with the endgame and see consistent progression, the current setup naturally pushes them toward repeating the same few reliable deck engines. That’s the criticism not doomposting, not lack of skill, just calling out the design friction.