Having both plot and elites within a week forces us to choose one between the 2, and even if we were to choose one, the amount requires daily is still too freakishly high to finish daily. It was possible to easily get 80-100 points daily (not counting weekly missions) every week, now it's only possible to MAYBE do that for 2 out of the 4 weeks, and even then it requires either stamina pots usage, or possibly some ingots usage (which is wasteful, and uncalled for). And then, there's "upgrading group skills", which, like you said, is a concept not exist in active groups because, hello, everyone's at maxed possible group skills, and the next time we can upgrade them is when we collect a bazzilions of donations to upgrade the group, which just doesn't happen twice a month, and not upgrading group skills just to wait for the monthly reward is just plain idiotic... Last, we come to elite instances. The first issues with elite instances is that they offers fragments for ninjas that rarely get used, so who really wants to spend precious stamina on the majority of them? Let's say we ignore the first issue because we want a specific ninjas we don't have yet or want to upgrade stars for a particular ninja that we like, we then come to the second issue, 40-60 clearance a day. Like really? There's a cap of 3 clears per instance, so basically, we'd have to do 14-20 difference elite instances a day, which just isn't gonna happen if we just want to get or upgrade one ninja. So to even finish the mission, we'd need to do instances that gives fragments of ninjas we're not using, and do we really want fragments for ninjas we're not ever gonna use? I mean sure, get them to 5 stars and we can get fragments for Iruka and 4-6tails Naruto, but even with that in mind, it's still not worth it. I'd be more willing to do elite instances if the 3 trials daily is removed, but with that cap, elite instances is just something that does not make any sense to anyone who has been actively playing the game for longer than a month.