Is it just me or does this game completely suck for a new player.

We get about 30 mins of content at the start from Begin City and then it's a complete grind. Two weeks later and I just finished the second world.
I got a total of 9 girls so far, so team building is absolute garbage. Our income is abysmal and battling is boring to say the least.

Browsing through the forums, I see that there used to be energy reloads with level ups. That probably made the game actually fun. Until there is something else to compensate, this game will be dead before you know it....