Still, the entry barrier for this game has significantly lowered now

Speaking as an early player, it's definitely much easier now. Back at launch, Chapter 1's Yakumo Yukari was a <<wall of tears>>. In the beginning, there was no friend adding feature. Now you can just bring a friend's character and get carried, right? What's more, you get a character who can exploit weaknesses for free just by clearing quests. And in this game, you have to keep running stages to get stronger. Nowadays, you can just set up a good replay and click 'auto battle 999 times', but back then, there wasn't even an auto-retry, so we manually grinded Lawe all night. Stages that could be cleared with mindless full auto were considered lucky. All you have to do is press the retry button while being careful about your mood, right? For stages where that wasn't possible, you had to manually give orders to each character every single time. This game has become much more convenient now.