It's a change of fate for gacha games that more games needs! Sure, collabs were lost (and are being restored by the modding community), multiplayer is lost (although I had an extremely laggy experience with multiplayer), but the randomness in luck of crafting armors or luck of draw on characters and weapons has been completely removed, so you can get something when you want (provided it is available, might require progression and Zenny or Element Metal or Event items), the story elements have been properly sewn into the main mode, and there is not much when it comes to grind.

By the grind I mean: If you just focus on one character and two weapons, and ranking them up, you will be able to progress without grinding provided you keep upgrading weapons and character, and keep getting 3 stars on every story mission (not hard at all).

Also worth noting it has a very active modding community.

It's a change of fate for gacha games that more games needs! Sure, collabs were lost (and are being restored by the modding community), multiplayer is lost (although I had an extremely laggy experience with multiplayer), but the randomness in luck of crafting armors or luck of draw on characters and weapons has been completely removed, so you can get something when you want (provided it is available, might require progression and Zenny or Element Metal or Event items), the story elements have been properly sewn into the main mode, and there is not much when it comes to grind. By the grind I mean: If you just focus on one character and two weapons, and ranking them up, you will be able to progress without grinding provided you keep upgrading weapons and character, and keep getting 3 stars on every story mission (not hard at all). Also worth noting it has a very active modding community.