I am sure this is a dead horse, but…

This NR era I decided to purchase crystal packs to get all the marquee characters to 5 stars. My initial goal was to obtain the 5 LSTs, but also wanted to get all my marquee characters to gear 13 like I was able to get with the Andor toons. I didn’t invest in the Andor era beyond the Episode Pass. All of the Andor toons are 4 stars and gear 13, including Andor himself. This Era I invested in crystal packs and the episode pass for 5 star toons, but without investing additional money in the mark VII and VIII packs, which can ONLY be purchased with real money (outside of the 100 mark VII that I will get for snow trooper 5 stars, plus I think 25 each additional day after snow trooper gets to 5 stars, which I think will be 3-4 days, so a total of 200) I will only be able to get 1 toon past era 110 to maybe era 112, which is not close to gear 13, maybe gear 12.5? So no 5 star toon will be gear 13 for NR era, but all my 4 star toons from Andor era are all gear 13? Is that a miscalculation on CG part, or is it deliberate? Doubt I’ll invest anything in this game going forward. I know CG doesn’t care, they have their whales, but I though the new model was to get more non-whales to invest their hard earned money into this game? This era seems like they went for a quick cash grab knowing that most non-whales wouldn’t reinvest their money since the whales will never go away. Is anyone else experiencing this? I think each month this era I spent $100 bucks maybe in crystal packs and episode passes to get all the marquee characters to 5 stars. Andor I spent less than $50 each month and got more out of it… what gives here?