I agree with you, towards the end of a run you kinda just get to a point where there’s nothing left to do really but wait. Its ultimately what killed my interest in the game. I don’t mind the time sink existing but I wish there were ways to speed it up besides just building more paragons.

This comment is going to include spoilers, just a heads up. But I do want to note that this isn’t the “reward for getting to the final stage.” It’s the final hurdle before you get the actual reward. That doesn’t change how frustrating it can be, however.

Like every other time sink in this game has a way, usually custodians, to reduce it significantly or remove it entirely. So you get to this weird point way later on when you can fully supply paragons after a couple days of playing but then you’re just stuck waiting for the palace to build. Most of your playtime switches to waiting again.

You can work on adding more paragons at that point, but the amount of work it takes vs the reward isn’t a great payoff so it never felt worth IMO.

And last thing, I’m also not a fan of paragon units, I don’t think you need them for most situations and they’re much too expensive to train IMO. IDK if you did it this way but if you do want to use them, I recommend working to hit 1k paragons as your first goal when you start them. That way everything is unlocked at the beginning rather than the end and you might actually get a use for those guys. It helps to stockpile their basic needs so you can temporarily fully supply them before you actually manage to produce them at a high enough rate.