As a returning player, and someone who just wants to catch-up to the latest, it really makes you jump through hoops, it feels like the goal of all this stuff to keep you playing the game and doesn't really respect your time, the list for the skyscale literally put me off, it was a pain to get through the first 2 and then when I was told you need 250 of the map tokens later on, was like hell no.
The more I look at this game after being away for so long, the more I feel it's gotten out of control and it really needs a cleanup to the majority of it's core systems and designs.
I hope end of dragons doesn't further add to the bloat, but takes a much cleaner and simpler design approach.