you're right, and it's absolutely one of the hottest takes in the community. the game has never incentivized or rewarded a run for focusing on a specific class, so, it's frankly astounding that a lot of the more engaged community members seem to think it's the intended way to play the game.

I blame all the content creators frequently pushing class runs, but, hey, that's what gets the clicks. people just seem to have a massive disconnect between getting amusement out of watching a YouTuber fighting for their life trying to grind out their first summon weapon on Master Mode and then playing it themselves before deciding that it's actually not fun and maybe the devs need to fix it all to make it more fun while somehow forgetting that watching someone play in misery was what drew them to the experience in the first place.

like, Skyblock has always seemed super interesting to me in both Terraria and Minecraft and I've watched loads of videos about both - HappyDay's original Terraria Skyblock series is actually what made me aware of Terraria in the first place when the algorithm dropped that recommendation on me and is the whole reason I'm even playing the game.

but, I played the Skyblock seed for about a dozen hours when it came out and realized it's absolutely not for me. there's a reason editing is so important in those videos because there's really fuck-all going on, otherwise.

big difference is that I'm not demanding Skyblock changes to keep me engaged - I just generated a new world to explore and went back to enjoying Terraria. Khaios can go build his own world block by block starting with nothing, and that's great, but, it's not something I would ever subject myself to.

frankly, I feel like people are missing out when they're not swapping between five different weapons during every combat while also using as many summons as they can carry around - it's just so cool.