Grind to improve skill? Respectable. No matter what game.

Grind hours away for imaginary coins or whatever I need to compete with the pay-to-wins? Pass. I won't waste my time validating their money.

I don't respect people who dismiss such a basic piece of logic out of hand for being what they don't want to hear.

I respect world record holders. I respect those who want to BE world record holders. I don't respect those who waste ten hours a day, seven days a week, on Isekai Demon Waifu or games like it. You're not growing, you're stagnating. It's sad that you don't understand the difference.

I will not grind for sixty hours in Pokemon for the optimal team composition in Pokemon Black and White. I won't grind for fourty hours or twenty hours or two hours. I don't care if people call it "cheating" for me to spend more hours fighting people with the team and fewer hours grinding for the team. I can't take time off work for gaming.

Whatever happened to cheatcodes that unlocked everything? Oh, right, companies realized they can make more money selling convenience back to you after lengthening the grind to an unbearable degree. It exploits the most vulnerable at the expense of everyone who plays a worse game because of them, and they'll make any excuse to validate their own exploitation because of the sunk cost fallacy.