I totally agree OP. While the idea was to introduce content that was a nice break from grinding, dungeons, coil and quests - its just another grind all the same.

Kinda sad actually because I wanted to work towards getting the mounts, but with the price they currently are at, I'm not even going to try.

This isn't to say that I couldn't do it, but grinding out 1 million MGP is absurd and it doesn't sound fun considering how little MGP you get for doing GS content.

There is plenty in this game that is grindy enough already, I wish they would reconsider the prices to encourage people - by giving them a reasonable achievable goal. Grinding is not fun.