Not a concern for them. They're in "cheap and quick" assembly line mode. Some things are interesting for a bit and the art dept is kicking butt, but the raids are lame because they don't want to expend the resources and time on a raid because we burn through them too quickly and easily. One of the reasons we're getting these year-ish long raids. The next one will probably be similarly mid and require us to relic more and more units we don't want to because the characters suck.
We've also been asking for a fleet raid or a phase of a raid that requires ships for pretty much as long as raids have been around. Same as accelerating ship shards, you can see how successful that is for us.
CG isn't run by gamers, it's run by accountants staring at the revenue number and nothing else.