I *personally* agree with you that CC is not fun to play, but there's no "FOMO" involved in promoting CC, in fact, one of the main reasons that killed CC "Ranked" mode is the lack of rewards & incentives in general.

And if you mean by "FOMO" the Series Malmstones AKA PvP Battle Pass .. it takes 1 day of spamming CC to get to level 25. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, exp almost the same. The entire new PvP system is designed to satisfy casuals.

Even Sprouts are running around in Gridania wearing the Archfiend set for example.

You have no excuses, if you couldn't reach series level 25 then it is what it is.