I personally don't mind grinds.
I mean I have caught over 75,000 fish.
That should say a lot.

But what I don't like is that I quit this game for months because I got bored of doing 50 alex runs a week trying to get equipment
Now i'm supposed to do 600-700 of them.

Further, it's never a challenge.
It's not like speed running alex 1 or 2 is hard.
People are apparently doing it in 5 or 6 minutes.

I remember FFXI had stuff like Assault, which was intuitive
And then Nyzul assault had random floors so every time you did it, there was something new.
That was grindy, but fun. Because every experience was different. And you could actually die in it.