This first part would have been completely fine for me, if they had the next and (according to the patch notes) much longer step in game already.

The content was fine and the new ex trial is pretty fun (you don't have to do the ex for the weapons.) But I was also really hoping for a grind to sink my teeth into this time.

I can only guess that they didn't want to add anything too daunting right before the FF7R launch. I can certainly understand that if that's the case.

I just hope we get a new weapon patch relatively soon. We waited far too long for this and I'd hate to wait that long for the next step.