You all overreact

I can sort of see where you're coming from and I have to agree that taking into perspective the account age as relative to progress that takes a big weight off my shoulders. I'm here to enjoy the game not to stress on out (more than I probably should). Having played this game 10 years ago and only got to restarting 3 months ago the progress has literally been lightspeeds faster than I used to.

Also I know it's different game modes I realize they have their roles

You have fleet for crystals which fuel a lot of things
GAC/Conquest/TW to actually use the characters and teams you grind for
Coliseum I can see how they want to make it a theorycrafting play area but placing a HEAVILY sought after resource material for it people are going to only want to play meta or pay into it to get the ranks. But just to remind people, way back when people were happy getting 100 tokens on auto daily saving for 5000 to get an aurodium that's like a month per LST and now play your cards right you get 2-3 per month

I probably went through 32 parsecs all over the place with what I was saying but to summarize it. Maybe stop stressing about fast progression and realize that playing today gets you further than years of grinding a decade ago. Even though new modes like Coliseum force a strict meta because of high-stakes rewards, the baseline payout is still way better than the old days.

On the other hand, we shouldn't also be silent if things don't feel our way, that's how the devs also learn the temperature of the consumer base and enact changes how they see fit, and we see growth not only in the game but also in our experience. 

Let's work together and enjoy the game guys! :D