People who already have the original Cactace like me get shafted pretty hard in this deal, lol.

Maybe let me choose a different 6* if I already own Cactace.
Heck, I'd be willing to skip the Cactace step to just buy my way to Bridal Cactace. But nope Bonus step only.
This is silly. You'd think they understand that the people most willing to own Bridal Cactace are people who already own the original Cactace (likely by the previous Rainbow ticket deal she was involved in, or by just plain whaling). But naw, let's put her behind a massive paywall to milk those players just a bit more.

Now because a whole bunch of whales bought into the earlier step up deals, Nutaku thinks the whaling populace will eat all this overpriced shit up no prob.

And the sad thing is they're probably right.