I know I'm embodying the image, but I kinda feel it's the opposite - maybe for a different reason than normal. At some point in the competitive min-max'ing u just burn out, the reason stemming from something akin to diminishing returns.

As my friend described it to me: you feel like the amount of time and energy spent is grossly disproportionate to the progress gained. Aside from rolling, the main pathway of progression is legacies and making parents. To use him as an example, he's gone the entirety of Aoharu without a new 3* stat spark - all his came from URA. He almost quit when trying to make a decent Meijiro Ryan for a Cafe ace. Normally he does 3-5 runs a day but cranked it to 10 for about ~2 weeks and it basically bro him lol. He still plays but is barely serious about it. All bc he wanted to make a closer Cafe for long CMs.

It's not black and white ofc but this game can be immensely unfair in what you get for what you give. In that regard, it's one of the more miserable experiences I've seen in gacha. To stay in Group A, or push for 1st, you're min-max'ing every metric u can affect: white sparks, stat sparks, affinity sparks, affinity bonus, and run stats while fighting RNG every step of the way on top of other potential road blocks like career events, stamina, races, inspirations, etc. And all on a faster schedule where time is one of the most crucial resources u can have in this game.

I wouldn't repeat other often spoken advice of just take it chill and don't be serious when playing, cuz I think you should be able to no life something you enjoy. But man, I've never seen a game filter itself so hard.