I really hope you're just being hyperbolic here. I can agree that there are many games that one can rather play than GI if they progressed too fast without maxing their team first (i'm an f2p so i take my sweet time procrastinating), but this... this "thing"? seriously? have u even played the recent versions? this isn't even a game atm.. just blueball grinder
I mean, as far as a "sexy game" goes, yeah, it's a bit grindy, and I did find looking for some of the rarer Traited monsters to be tedious, since it's just "walk up to girl and check for Trait" and repeat x100, so there's no skill involved. However, if you look at it as a "normal game" and you've played any of the Monster Rancher games, it makes more sense. Plus, it is a Breeding Simulator, so there's supposed to be actual breeding and distribution involved.
The progression is a different thing entirely, though. I'm not sure why portals were locked away at the end, and my game is still soft locked, because I went for that. It's not perfect, but if you've been around here long enough, you'd know that there are plenty of garbage erotic games, and at least this one functions.
Genshin Impact on the other hand, is a pay2win mess, with extreme real money prices. Exploring the game was a ton of fun, but ever since I passed AR35, it's literally turning into a Daily Quest Simulator. The Battle Pass would be fun, if they also didn't lock the weapons you get from it behind a fucking pay wall, so now you have to subscribe to that for like $25 a month, ontop of the monthly moon subscription, in order to get anything "good", which won't happen because drop rates are literally 0.6%. Which makes no damn sense, for a "single player" to have "MMORPG competitive prices".
The number one thing that ultimately kills me interest in online games, is Daily Quests. Genshin Impact is new, so there's not a ton of them, but if you played the newest update, then you know about the Weekly Bounties, which is just more limited crap you have to play. Eventually, there will be so much daily content you have to do, that you end up spending more time doing that, then actually playing the game. It happens with
EVERY online game, and I get so damn sick of it. I understand it's purpose, but it shouldn't take over the "entire" game.
War Frame is a good example of this. As fun as that game is, I have a hard time getting back into it every year, because I know I'm going to have to grind the daily emblem hunts, in order to make any progress in the Reputation system. Pretty much every online game forces you to do this. It's garbage. When I log into a game, I want to have the choice to do what I want, but we don't have that choice with modern gaming. I grew up on the old school "grind monsters for 1337 loot", but you just can't do stuff like that anymore. It's all quests, quests, quests, and daily garbage. If I sound cynical, it's because I've been tired of this for at least 10 years now.
I still like Genshin Impact, but the future of the game is super clear. At least with BOTN, I get to watch a cat girl bang a titan.