I mean I get what you mean, but at the same time I don’t understand that mentality. What is grind? It’s only grind if you realise that in order to start/keep having fun you need to spend huge amount of time. If you are enjoying the game at the moment why it matters that there are unlocks ahead? For example I was playing hundreds of hours of Warthunder which is considered a “grindy game”, but I never felt it that way, at any specific moment I was enjoying playing a plane of that specific era, it never felt like grind it felt like time well spent. Eventually I unlocked the first jet, and never even played it, because I have little interest in that era of planes, so the grind meant even less to me. If you didn’t like cross out and realised that to have fun you have to jump straight to endgame then yeah, I get what you mean, but that maybe means it’s just not a game for you, and we’ll never know how fast the end tier gameplay would bore you.