I said it before in the "Eureka is ruined" thread about Pagos, but I'll say it here again: Pagos exhibits incredibly lazy design that apparently got the green light just because it'd be something to "keep players busy" through means of mindless grinding for hours (which this game's battle system is not designed for), incredibly stacked RNG to achieve anything outside of leveling with a dash of gating, attempts at dissuading player-adopted behaviors from Anemos (the NM train) and "oh, players just haven't bothered discovering the most efficient way of farming light" (Use a HQ pagos potion, face mobs south on all prime-numbered chains, make sure to spin your Magia board one full rotation every mob, squeeze an elemental in every 5th kill, have your healer spam /comfort on every 10th mob, and then pray RNG decides to mutate your mob on the 30th chain-- how did no players discover this simple, obvious trick?? )

Pagos wasn't designed to be entertaining, it was designed to be a time sink on all fronts, and that's not acceptable. The biggest culprit is how much of a crutch RNG has become in Pagos to the point that it turns-off more people than it motivates to "tolerate" it, not helped by the fact that the "rewards" are clearly not desirable enough and the content itself does nothing to keep players engaged. They actually thought it would be acceptable to release another Diadem 2.0's Emergency Mission-esque loot system (in Cassie) by only having the drop go to one participating player (in a mob of say, 90+ people) as if there was no outcry against that idea; meanwhile the NM itself so scarcely gets spawned due to the fickle nature of the spawning conditions and lack of manpower most times to do so.

The light system (or chaining, as a whole) discourages socializing (no time for idle chit-chat, or there goes your coveted chain 30) and I've seen it actually create animosity due to camping disputes. Worst yet, you can go for extended periods of no progress in your light bar while one or several people in your party won't shut up about all the light they're getting because RNG isn't just for Eureka lootboxes any more. I'm sure I don't need to elaborate on the Hakutaku eyes and the RNG needed to put-up with for something really only useful in Eureka (which is such a big hit right now that everyone is spending all their time in there, yeah?) or your XI nostalgia-fix glamour. I really could go on, but I'm preaching to the choir.

I mean if you can enjoy it for whatever it is right now, more power to you.