Beast Tamer main, 210+, Elysium. I play the stuff nobody else play... and then complain on why its hasn't been updated since launch! (I do love Monad). I hope Nexon will fix the game soon.
The game is quite different. My suggestion is simple, jump in and see it for yourself. Ignore everything else, try to experience it as blind as possible.
The coin prices are bit high ye, but when you collect those coins for ring and pendant you probably get ears and belt as a drop from hellux.
Thats still 2 months, and unless you are scrolling your items with regular scrolls instead of the Gollux Scrolls you get from the shop its a 3-5 month daily grind. Every other boss his level and before had easier access to their items and were weekly instead of daily. It feels like very little thought went into the design of the shop, would be better even if Gollux dropped all the accessories varying on difficulty and the shop offered extras instead if they wanted to keep it as a daily.
"Upper management/executives are clueless about what makes a game good and the Western market in general"
You don't say. Wouldn't surprise me then that the dev team already has a whole stack of fixes done but its thrown aside because... who really knows honestly.