Whistles and Fifes

[Zorixas]

I want to ask everyone:
Is it fun to fight a battle 99 times and wait nine months for a prize? Is everyone okay with this?

Edit: It seems that the question itself is being lost. All I ask for is a simple and honest answer, so I'll give my answer to my own question as an example. Feel free to share your experiences and opinions as well.

No, it's not fun to fight the same battle 99 times. Personally, it's a chore after the 20th time. 30 times if I enjoyed the battle, but there's only so many times that I can enjoy fighting the same boss over and over.
No, it's not fun to wait 9 months for my hard work to pay off, I am not okay with it. If you're going to make someone work hard for something, at the very least let's have the payoff right away. I'm glad that there's at least a cap on the number of tries to say, "Enough is enough, here you go, you worked hard for it." But to wait 3-9 months for that? Why? What's the point in doing that? What possible reason is there for such a long wait time?
I beat Sephirot 99 times, it was frustrating, but at least I bought the falcon when I was finished, so there was some satisfaction in it. I beat Suzaku 99 times, and now I have the totems just sitting there in my inventory and no wolf (didn't even see the fife drop at any point after around the 30th battle), which makes it even more infuriating.

Those are my thoughts on the matter. What are you thoughts?