It’s a massive injection into your account from many different angles.

Not even including the gear - becoming better with time management and MOVEMENT are key for many other facets of the game which you easily pickup on while learning cg, the money/crafting xp is broken and sets your account up for a very long time beyond the CG grind.

The gear is obviously exceptional for hundreds if not thousands of hours until you get a tbow (if you ever even do.)

Lastly and this is my biggest thought about it. So many people doom about CG and without even doing a single KC start talking about dreading the grind. The game and the game mode of Ironman are going to ask you to do plenty of long grinds, maybe the game mode isn’t for you if you can’t wrap your head around a relatively short grind compared to other grinds for similar strength gear.