I think it's funny that people are still calling this Chaotic fight "midcore." People are spending longer progging this single ten-minute fight than many casual players have to play for the entirety of a two-week period. That's hardcore, full stop.

I can't believe how normalized we've made putting in eight- to ten-plus-hour days of games like that's perfectly healthy and not something that should only be done once in a great while.

Note that I'm neither calling the existence of hardcore content good nor bad. Just saying perspectives are super skewed.