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>>19540246
Not going to touch on the PvE, but here's the thing: Jewel Princess isn't Seven Knights. The problem you're failing to mention about arena is that more offensive teams are extremely reliant on having high amounts of spectra/jewelia units to perform well (specifically as many dupes as possible of Lapis Lazuli, Topaz, Sapphire, Garnet, and soon Malachite), and defensive teams were about the only effective method to hold them at bay and progress in arena as a free player without ready access to level 40 spectra.

The recent Lapis buffs definitely obsoleted the stupid 3/4-healer + Emerald meme teams, which were definitely a bit much, but in doing so it also fucked over Amber who was the sole floodgate keeping the absolute cancer that is Jewel Princess status effects at bay. So now you're basically forced to go hyperoffense in order to not get statused, oneshot, and screwed over no matter if you have the required spectra or not. I don't think anyone liked defensive teams very much, but they were an anti-meta that arose as a direct response to the dominance of both spectra-heavy hyperoffensive teams and shit like pic related and now that they've been gutted by losing 80% of their sustainability there's virtually no way to remain on a remotely even footing with whales. That's why people are angry (and, for obvious reasons, why turbowhales are not).

The game will still probably last a while before going under, but that's not much of a quality mark.