It's definitely a reason why I don't bother with TT and I loved it in FF8 and collected every card.

I'm fine with things taking a little time to collect or some cards being rare, but collecting every card would involve tens of thousands of games. It's far too much repetition and I'd find it impossible to still enjoy it after that.

Pair that with the fact 4 star cards are useless, the TT tournament is outdated and there's nothing else really to do with TT... life's just to short to burn all those hours for a few virtual 5 star cards in a game most people don't care about.