I’ve fallen into the trap of playing some of those for a while as well as they can be easy to get into and there’s this whole “if I just do this then I can do that” thing that never ends. Once you step back from them to look at it all objectively the bulk require little to no skill due to how much random chance is involved. It just ends up being mostly a matter of how much time and money you want to invest in them.

They tend to have a lot of stuff that you can just bypass completely by giving them money. Don’t want to wait hours to days for this to countdown, give us money and there’s no countdown at all, ran out of in game gold/resources/etc, give us money and you can stock up on a ton. You can even buy gear or even XP in some, not XP bonuses, straight up XP, give them enough money and you’ll be at level cap in a couple hours if there’s no restriction on how many you can use. If you look at the top whatever on a server they’ll all be “VIP” members, and some achievements involve items you get next to none of in game but can buy in the hundreds in the shop which all enforces the money buys status idea.

One final dig is against Wartune which you likely have seen ads for at one time or the other. That game flat out ripped off the music from several other games. Tried that for one of those “earn free cash shop currency” deals and it seemed odd that it had so many music tracks and with all of them being pretty good till I hit one I knew for a fact was in another game released many years before Wartune. Poked around, spoke to others, and it turns out many to all the tracks in that game were taken from other games, including some big name ones supposedly.