The unfortunate reality is CG keeps showing us that they don't concern themselves with long time players. Their priority, their resources, their effort is all on bringing in new characters. People who have been here and been loyal are low priority, if not zero priority.
Relic delta helps players with more developed rosters, but at the same time they made relic building easier for everyone, significantly. The coliseum punishes everyone, but long-term players who used to spend 150 bucks and before that 300 to get characters 7-star quickly are being pushed to spend 450 to build them in this stupid coliseum event. Then we have to build them anyway.
The spiderlegs maul event is plain rubbish because now you have to get your whole team of 6 to era level 85 which will require spending money to do so you can get him at 7-star. Probably something they should've waited to talk about until AFTER Christmas and especially not as response to a bug fix where they dusted all our DCs.
And whatever they're doing is being decided by people who aren't playing the game, aren't consulting players, aren't even asking their literal beta testing team to give them feedback on it. (Which sounds like something EA would do. Tell us about the game, but only good things or we won't listen to you!)
Stop trying to be a mini-EA. Go back to having actual gamers make decisions about the game.