I honestly enjoy the idea of a break being between Normal and Savage even if it's just a week.

Part of the fun for me going through Eden (First proper Savage tier) was imagining what the fights would be like in Savage.

I set really high expectations for how zany some of them would be (I put waaaaay too much into E1S being trickier then it really was), and some absolutely blew my expectations (E4S for sure).

I know some will argue that it cuts into a week of gear, but honestly this game suffers from burnout so damn quickly it would make more sense to give people a break. Especially when they're dropping two trials on us the same release day for the tier. Personally I'd rather run the EX on release, get the weapon, and then head into savage, but the current release system has you basically jump right to Savage for prog and you can only do the EX in your downtime.