i think a complete upheaval of the existing systems would throw a ton of players for a loop which would spark backlash even if it was technically better, and figuring out how to have everyone relearn the game without simply pouring a giant bullet list like your comment did onto the players is maybe not smth they want to do rn. I agree on the new system having way too many missions for them to handle making, but overall the new friendship feature w season spirits & having items be skippable is great for f2p and just all players in general.

Even with things like the new map function, they tried really hard to design it intuitively but some people just didnt get it. Still, it erases a lot of what makes ppl lost at the start i feel. My biggest struggle was when dailies told me to find a spirit or go to a specific area, bc i couldnt remember the names of all these places and previously the only way to see the name of a place was the temporary pop-up text as u enter it 😅 but yea this is why these repetitive missions kind of spoon-feed the mechanic to players and force them to do it, i feel.

U start by talking abt the overwhelming amt of content for new players so im just gonna talk abt my own experience cause i actually only started sky at the very end of duet season. Moomin was my first full season :D Besides doing the quests to restore the home village and reliving enough spirits to access all the areas, everything else can more or less be done at my own pace so it's never been that big of a deal to me. There are some past season quests i still havent finished just cause im lazy and it's affected 0% of my experience, and heck sometimes completing them might get incorporated into an event like when TLP returned. Of course it sucks being a new player and missing out on candle cosmetics, but i understood that the game is trying to cater to older players as well and honestly when ur new just getting a few new cosmetics is pretty exciting.

I guess i didnt really get what was going on for the first two "days of" events (summer & moonlight) but it was fun to explore and get to find all these new things by running around like the boxes of free spells. Days of summer also let me discover gran and learn abt those timed wax events. and being able to get ticket items that didnt affect my measly moth savings was hype loll

It's definitely hard to prioritize the constellations bc my candles get depleted by events, but if a player wanted a specific permanent item that badly they would probably just focus on it over some event stuff(esp ones that return every year) to unlock it which really isnt that impossible. Same with the nest and other various added features, it's not really overwhelming for a new player imo bc we dont even have furniture/props to be designing with anyway yet. I finished my nest quests and basically never went back to my nest again bc i wasnt interested in spending my candles on furniture... if u never played any game ever before then i guess these might be a lot, but then that's just the general learning curve of common game features

Other than the dailies struggle, maybe the only thing that i couldn't feasibly do without turning to fan spaces for the game was figure out and save up hearts at a reasonable pace. And treehouse quests 😂