actually the main gripe with the old way was the fact that u couldn't mlb the ssr wep or eido without gatcha pulls. (needed at least 1 of each from raid gatcha) which could've been easily solved by adding an extra 1 into rewards. (which is what they basically did)
also the phantom element wasn't all that bad since it allowed u to play with ur best team no matter what element it was. i found the problem more to be that rag was kinda forced onto u rather it being a way to get extra rewards n such. (plus u can basically run like 3+ experts in the time it took run 1 rag with almost the same amount of rewards in each expert)
yea i feel u there on that last 1. i wasn't even spammin raids that much outside of 1 of the burst times and i reached 3mil in like 2days. (without using tickets...)