A game with more grind than we have and the same lackluster rewards wouldn't stick around long enough for their first summit. The "hardcore" crowd couldn't support the franchise alone. It's a balancing act. Keeping both types of players happy is how a company succeeds. To much grind/difficulty you lose the majority of your players (along with their money). Having a streamer only summit shuts out the voice of the majority and doesn't do a good job of even pretending to care about the community as a whole.