You know, I'm fine with the length of the grind.

If anything, I wish the grind had more options. They don't even have to be new. Still make them long-term lots of time options, but more variety. Especially the older content. People who subscribed post HW didn't get to play BCoB or CT at all. Or the older modes of PvP.

I also think a time-based, rotating bonus system like Light would help. Keep the queue times down. Ex: Tuesdays, get bonus toward your unidentified items by running Crystal Tower. Suddenly, CT is full, queue times are short, older players aren't farming alex but doing something different, ewer players can see some amazing older content.

I like that there's more variety to the grind: alex/roulettes for tomestones/beast tribes/maps; but most of that stuff is solo and grindy. Why are they not incentivizing the beautiful older content that is fun and interesting and very much dead right now?