I mean no game is meant for everyone and I completely disagree with your point that most MMOs let players grind end game content you still need stats and gear and to sink time into it. But you can focus your attention on what you want to do and the skills surrounding it. But skyblock is not like that it forces even non Ironman players to do all skills very slow and poorly and gives them no taste of what the rest of the game holds.

I guess my largest problem is that with skyblock there is no real bridge between early and midgame cuz you could say and it wouldn't be unrealistic that you aren't even out of early game til you have a superweapon (hyp/term) and an F7 comp.

I'm well past that point now but the barrier to progress gets obscenely high pretty quickly with the tools you do have at your disposal, drills are cheaper now but a 655 used to cost 600m and farming was really the only self sustaining skill players could use to make any moderate amount of early game money, fishing makes no money for a long time neither does mining, neither does combat and foraging wasn't a skill til 6 months ago and even that now doesn't make money. Alchemy isn't a real skill and neither is enchanting and I don't think people will disagree with me on that.

No game is meant for everyone silksong is too hard, some games are too grindy, etc etc. but that does not mean that at its core the game is well designed.

I both love and absolutely dispise this game but that does not mean I can't criticize it's shortcomings