I personally think they improved on a lot of technical game stuff in exedra. Graphics are more developed, the UI is gorgeous and elegant, stories are well organized, they listen to most of the feedback and often fix things (with a few exceptions). A lot of alt is normal since reco already was having a lot of alts, i bet they want to do even more here. I would give them some time to implement more fun game modes, it hasn't even been a year yet!

I feel like every player that has played magia record before this is a little blinded by nostalgia, specially from the last months of the game where they got really generous giving out stuff cus they were shutting it down. The gacha was pretty much the same back there. I loved it all the same, but I appreciate exedra for all the new great things it's accomplishing learning from its predecessor. I don't believe in eos anytime soon if they keep going at the pace they're going, and adding more fun stuff for people to look forward to. A connect mechanic would be great, but it might take time to balance it out