If this wasn’t an example of everything gone wrong with the portal. You took an encounter that, by its mechanic, was already tedious, then randomly applied tone of modifiers like extinction, bullet sponge boss, ads with special shields, champions… and it no longer works. During damage phase, you have to stand next to one of the pillars, with little cover, so standing in a well. Except now ads punch harder and have overshield, while the boss can crunch you with a punch. For a solo player using FtF that means 1/1000 chance to find a group of people who have the right build, coordination and patience, to repeat the mechanics multiple times. On paper, this should be a challenge to overcome, in practice more often that not it feels annoying and frustrating to play roulette with FtF. This is not a plea to « making the game easier » just an observation.