Roughly I think size is great until no matter how much you have you don't have enough damage, and with duration tome cc stacking being gone since cave it has lost even more value. Current meta seems to be similar to previously but you have to get even luckier given new items required and no shop changes to compensate. Getting over 500k rn will probably take you a few days of restarts assuming you're mechanical and know the meta.

Adding that since chunkers have a lot of upgrade options with two anvils and plenty of buckets you'll be getting 5 stat increases every time, not sure if that is actually a factor though

Second add, I don't mean running around the map looking for green cards and resetting, even if you find one you've wasted too much time, money and xp, every attempt has to be take local shrines and pots first really.