New Unreal is a an all around miserable experience.

[JamieRose]

Something tells me you started doing Unreal with Ultima Weapon, and never actually experienced Titan, Leviathan, or even Shiva Unreal.
If you had, you'd know how much of a joke Ultima Weapon Unreal was, and how the difficulty hasn't increased by that much with Sephirot Unreal, compared the the three unreal trials I mentioned.

All of those fights you mentioned could not be cleared in party finder.