This update isn't as bad as we thought!?

Relic accessibility changes: very good, all those R5s that didn't "need" R7 are gonna go to R7, R8/9 is easier to get. Best part of the update.

RD: people don't seem to realize how much easier it is now to build relics and at RD=0 all counters will work exactly as they did before RD. People also don't seem to realize that this enables a partial return to that old GAC strat when people would build a focused, lean roster to control GP growth and get easier matchups. Now a new player in Carbonite can build a Relic 7 KRU, plop it down on defense and watch Relic Delta farm wins for them. New players and small accounts will benefit from building tall instead of wide. That's as nuanced as I can be on day 3 of SWGOH 2.0. However, CG not checking whether it impacts JG events is braindead stupid. 

Lag: worst thing about the update. Fleet arena climb is near impossible on mobile; Lev mirrors that should be a guaranteed win can time out now. Steaming pile of poo. 

Coliseum: boring, but at least not a time sink. Collect your winnings from the previous leaderboard placement, do one or two attempts, level up your toons if you can, done in 5 minutes. 

Era level upgrade system: sucks harder than vacuum. 

New marquees in a walled garden: we get kit reveals 3 months before the character is usable normally instead of a week. After an Era ends, characters can be geared up, modded, and used in GAC/TW/TB/Conquest like the rest of the roster. This doesn't bother me. So what, Ahnald will do the SLuke test stream in February instead of November. Much ado about nothing, imo.

R10: it'll be a once in a blue moon upgrade for key toons in your roster (Bane, GLs, GL companions like Drogan or Ezra, tanks). It's in the same position that R9 was at first, decried as P2W and it turned out that most of the playerbase didn't engage with R9 beyond unlock requirements anyway. 

Ok, I'm going back to trolling now.