Too many people giving me headaches today. So I'll spent 10 minutes in a nice format explain every single detail of my thought process.

The thing about archers
You get bashira FREE literally within a day of playing. Nutaku's permanent TP has the spica for cheap. 10 SC = spica immediately. 15 if you are unlucky. Or grind it out for 1.5 months. Thats the time it took for my spica in dmm. 10-15 SC/1.5 months for a confirmed plat? SeemsGood.

2 of the best plat archers in its class even by DMM's standard. Both easy to obtain.
Why waste so much affection and 2 silver archers on a danielia that a new player will not min-cost?
(a 9 cost silver archer is very useful on some UP costly maps, but that is out of reach for new players)

Not that daniela is a bad unit, she is a great silver. But you don't need a silver archer that costs 2-3 UP less.
Danielia cost 12. Spica 14. Bashria 15.
Spica and bashria will be with you, pretty much forever. Daniela will fade to super niche.

So if i skip Daniela, how long does it take to level Bashira?
It is about 1.2 times harder to level a plat unit than leveling a silver unit. (According to Exp table from dmm)
But you have an excess of silver from clearing a map. So the mats for CC-ing are definely covered.

So why do people rate Daniela so highly?
Daniela is strong, thats why. But it can be noted that free players, myself included save stam/char by watching videos that guide us through the levels.
Those video makers understand that free players don't have access to strong units. So they use as basic units as possible to showcase the importance of positioning/timing over rarity.

This might lead to a preferential treatment of certain units.

Comparing units for dummies
Comparing unit ________________________ Bashria vs Daniela vs Spica
Easy to Get? ______________________________ ☑ _______☑_______☐*
Easy to Deploy?____________________________ ☑ _______☑_______☑
Strength of unit early?_______________________☑ _______☑_______☑
Usefulness late? (Post Awakening)_____________☑ _______☐_______☑
(*Spica is considered "hard" only because you don't get her immediately. Only after playing for a month or so.)

So what is provenance's tier list based on? Experience and...feelings~ the feels
Bashira you scum, your cat ears cant beat daniele's boobs.