"Coming into its own" is too much!

[Neophyte]

you can bold, underline and italicize the 40 to 60h, but not only is that taking up the lion's share of that time per day, whether it is fun for the player is also up in the air, since those were the same dungeons grinded for tomestone gear. The point I was making is that 40-60 hours of playtime is going to be a lot less appealing and more of a wall when it is something that is no longer fun to the player.

If this is not fun for the player, then playing current and outdated content is not fun for that player. Ergo he should stop playing something which is no fun to him.

There are only three options, if 'playing' 40h a month:
A) you do current/old content and cap all tombstones
B) you do current/old content and buy relic/gear
C) you do not much content at all