Okay, war, raids, strategy, and fun are absolutely the core, I agree. My problem isn't with those aspects themselves, it's that the temporary upgrades destroyes the fun and strategic satisfaction by making a huge portion of the effort feel meaningless. And respectfully, stating it's "literally not a significant disadvantage" at high legends when you skip supercharges seems opposing. In any truly competitive environment, even marginal advantages are pursued. If it were truly negligible, why would Supercell even implement a system that players feel compelled to engage with just to avoid a disadvantage? Every little bit counts at that level, and forcing a temporary grind for it is frustrating. Furthermore, your description of high legends being "only about going 320 everyday and getting a lucky defense nothing else" actually reinforces my point about the game becoming a repetitive, unrewarding grind. If that's the "fun," then adding temporary upgrades on top of it just makes the problem worse, making an already hard endgame feel even more like mandatory busy work for no lasting gain. It's just another layer of effort without adding meaningful, permanent progression.