I have cash to spend but I have limits, feedback welcome....

So, maybe poo poo on me, I bought the $20 ERA pass, I bought all the cash packs to get the new Huyang to 5* but I only got to stage one of the Era path. So sitting at 20/85 shards of the new character I am stuck with no way of furthering the new toon except for repeating the old missions (2 total for 10 shards per day) until the Marquee is over?

But hey! I figured I can spend that new Era currency on some Huyang shards to speed the process along but no, I am stuck like the old Marquees repeating the same 2 repeatable missions to get the new character to 6* at best and then rinse and repeat with the next new marquee character that comes out.

So I looked further at the Era Pass pack, looks like you have to PVE to accomplish the feats to progress, for those of us rely on Sim tix (due to "having a life,") we have no way of accomplishing these tasks to progress the tasks on the Era track.

So unless I am missing something, what is the point of spending on the passes?