YOU are the one claiming to be a SME in video game design. YOU are the one claiming to be a SME in publicly traded stock analysis; my understanding is you achieved this level of expertise bc ahem..., your brother did it many moons ago. lol. YOU are the one claiming the ability to be prescient bc of all this expertise you possess. Who knows, maybe all this ties into YOU being a SME as a Zen Practicioner. But, my point is, that it WILL die. Along with everything else. It has a finite lifespan. Everybody knows it will die, at some point in the future. Regardless of it being next week or next decade. The reasons for it dying will be innumerable. Way more numerous than just some fixation on enhancement cores. My personal friends quit this game bc Trials went on hiatus. They will return if/when Trials returns. I know more ppl who’ve walked away from the game currently bc strikes, nightfalls, story is over 7 months old, no talks of cores, just talks about being tired of same old same old, wrt activities. It’s gotten old and boring. No throwings of a fit, just simply walking away and saying if/when things change, I’ll take another look. In other words, a mature and unbiased approach to this game and developer. One based on objectivity, one not based emotionally, bc, ahem..., I didn’t get my way.