Truthfully, you're looking at the midcore content that is added in the game. The good players will have that down within 24 hours. It's not too surprising, although the whole 8 times clear I believe is just a joke like some people suggested...

...however, I wouldn't put it past some hardcore folk to even ask that. It's been 8 hours the patch has been up. As soon as you can throw yourself against the EX, they do it. It also will help them if they're in the process of clearing Savage as the weapons are better than the 230s currently being the meta (Bar having killed A8S.)

So not too surprisingly, unfortunately. This was never meant to be something to last more than a few weeks.