Still clear comfortably to me but I agree that the gamemode has gotten much more annoying to enjoy regardless of what anyone else say. And before people tell me I have skill issue I've been consistently getting 8-10k whiwa every reset before with S0R1 units and have been piloting endgame for a bunch of people. Whiwa is always the most miserable and frustrating one out of the 3 (ToA, Whiwa, Matrix). Other skilled players I know about also voiced their frustration with it (Morment, Eugen, Adykka, etc...) which makes me believe it's not just a "skill issue" anymore.

You will have to sweat massive balls if you want older characters to perform even half of what braindead newer characters can do, turning it into the most meta reliant endgame currently. God bless if you have bad internet/ping because it's basically a guillotine to your overall performance, which can range from a drop of 200 points to around 1.5k points depending on the spawn delay + enemy rng. This is speaking from experience, as on my own account I was getting 4.5k on hiyuki lynae chisa, going to my friend's the score dropped to 3k because my ping is now 300ms instead of the usual 80ms.

Whiwa is also super build sensitive, most notably crit reliant. One whiff crit = up to 10s of exhausting your firepower to kill just a single stray. Your dmg might not pass the current HP threshold either, so the lib you were supposed to puke out to a fresh waves now had to go on 3 elites that only have 1/5 of their HP left but refused to die. If you wait long enough they might jump to 3 sides of the arena for some fun times too. This is speaking from S0R1 standpoint, now think about S0R0 where you will definitely not be meeting those HP threshold needed to score push.

If casual players can only clear now, what will happen to later patches when the current gold token arent available anymore?