Grand Arenas and Shops.

Hi all. I was just wondering why Grand Arenas exist? I'm sitting in Carbonite 3 playing against players with A MINIMUM of 1.5 million GP higher then myself, so how am I supposed to beat that? That means that this entire week of rewards I'll be getting the 8th place reward and that's before I even start a battle, due to the insane GP difference! And this isn't the first time, it's basically 90% of the time that I set my defense, look at my opponents teams and then ignore Grand Arenas because there's nothing I can beat. Much fun!

Secondly, I stopped playing the game in 2019, I picked it up again in July, 2024, and I still had 90% of character and ship shards in the stores that existed before I stopped playing. That means in roughly 5 years, almost nothing has changed in those stores? It gets so boring looking at the stores everyday and there's nothing new to get or work toward, just have to log in, spend the 5 attempts worth of energy to get an average of 1 shard on a character, and then rinse and repeat over 330 days to max them out. Please start adding more characters and ships into the stores? Or, better yet, completely rotate the current ones for newer ones. 

Thanks for your time.