Cosmic Exploration is CASUAL content with a pinch of midcore

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Thanks for that sentence, I already thought me to be the only person on this forum to understand this very obvious truth.

Personally I cannot help but laugh about all this threads. It's hardcore! No, it's midcore! It's softcore, shmonzcore, whatevercore. So what? When a content is too hard for a person, then it's too hard for that person - which does not mean that the content is bad. "I do not like it because <solid reason>" is a good point to make. "It's bad since it's hardcore" is a very stupid take.

When the answer to some people's troubles was "just pentameld bro, lol" in nearly every topic about the difficulty, you can't really blame some people for having the perception that Cosmic Exploration was another false bridge like Chaotic Raid was. And it's not just crafting either, people seem to take umbrage with how gathering works in the mode too because of node distance and GP replenishment. Was that also player error and not a content one?

If you and others find the content so easy than you're a hair away from calling it "brain dead" like with every other piece of content you stomp through, good on you, keep on barely lifting a finger and all that. But I don't really trust it when other players who breeze through content because of their personal skill level being just that good try to blow smoke up my ass that I can totally do it too, whether its this content or any other kind.

Being told over and over again that things are easy doesn't really inspire confidence, but rather it makes the failures that much more embarrassing.

The fact that I find it easy or not is irrelevant. I am saying that at least on the side of crafting up to B-ranks and some lower A-ranks, this is baseline crafting recipes like we've had since the dawn of time.
I am perfectly happy to accept that everybody has different appreciations of difficulty, as evidenced by my post history in the dungeon subforums notably. But this ain't it. People complained about the content being "hardcore", which makes zero sense for the aforementioned reason. This is an overreaction, unless people are literally saying that they find baseline crafting "hardcore", which is a little wild to read, but I'm ready to hear it. Some people find baseline pve hard and I understand why. I can totally see that people can find baseline crafting hard as well. It's the "hardcore" part I have a little more issues with.