I have no idea how you expect people to do this twice a year. Either one of two things should happen here.
The first option is simple. Make the gains bigger. 10 to 15 jumps in power all the way up to max. Doing pinnacle ops hundreds of times is tedious and absolutely boring.
The second option is to kill the grind in 6 months. Let all the gear from the current year have all the bonuses and gear power with no reset until next expansion.
Gonna add divides video cause. It is relevant.
https://youtu.be/brq_yOjn7NE?si=bTp9aRhwGzy8lDzA
Edit: For those saying "you have 6 months." No we don't. The power resets in 6 months. So the longer I take to get to max power the more I will be punished for waiting. If I hit max a week before the reset I'm back to 0 and little t5s to show for it. THIS is the problem with the system itself. It actively punishes those who wait or play casually. If power sharing was enabled for loot. Then I could still raid and play the game super chill. I could just team up with players that want to grind everytime. But they hate that idea it seems.
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The power grind is estimated to be 90hr to hit max. This season is 6 months long. You can play 1 hour per day, hit max level and still have 3 more months. This is one of the most casual grind systems they've ever implemented. You can target farm pieces to optimize gains as well which helps cut down on wasted crap. It just seems worse because it takes longer to hit max but you have literally half a year to get there