I play a lot so at first I wasn't too bothered by the MW cores or the plants and magical elements required for infusion but after a few weeks in I can say that as a mostly PvP player it is somewhat annoying to get done playing a crap ton of matches only to have to run around and pick plants or pay Spider hundreds of shards for one more MW core. It made lagging out when I was just about to beat the first underworld quest at only 522 Power that much more infuriating. I understand that the investment team wants everyone to have to select which weapons are most important to them and for everyone to not have the same exact weapons and masterworks 2 months into Forsaken but I'm sure I'm not the only one who blew a ton of cores just trying to figure out the infusion system after launch. Please just do what the OP says and come up with a way that infusion materials better reflect the amount of time a player puts into the game. I think what the community was asking for was that things like legendary shards be made useful not just completely depleted down to zero.