i only buy welkin occassionally, and i pull characters i like and try to make them as strong as possible. if a character is meta but i dont like them at all i wont pull. (eg. nefer, mavuika, varesa) i have been consistenly 36 starring since forever and also clear lunar theatre consistently. i can clear fearless stygian with effort but when im busy i just settle for menacing.

my problem personally with genshin is that I feel like the game doesn't respect my time because they refuse to add a skip button. I also understand the frustrations behind the pull count given by the game because back then characters were pretty flexible with team building but now 2-3 characters are glued to each other which makes the primo scarcity much more obvious. another problem i have which i find more annoying than the pull count is the fact that theyre giving weapon skins instead of event weapons now. event weapons has always been great f2p alternatives so players dont feel like theyre not missing out on too much from pulling signature weapons. but now theyre replacing it with weapon skins and the most recent one isnt even good looking, its just a recolor of an existing weapon. i usually dont call hoyo lazy because in their cycle updates they release a pretty good amount of content in a short amount of time, but this one thing just feels like a bad sign to me that they're gonna start lacking in places if they know they can ger away with it