The game was nice right when Big Bang hit. It was the cluster of the updates that followed that really ruined the game. maple's basically just a pay2win mess now lmao
It was great, but then they made generally useless additions (e.g Nebulites, bonus potentional..) and turned it into an overpowered mess. But the grindings, I get that part. But again, it'd make you feel "prouder" of gaining a level instead of levling every other minute. But it balanced the levling out. Personally, the biggest downfall was when they started to add more and more "pay2win" stuff.
