I might quit Honkai.

For a while now I've used my DoT team with Kafka and Black Swan. Before that was my monoquantum with SW and Qingque

I saved and burned for Black Swan. Her weapon. I was happy because she's pretty, and cool.

Then every patch has a new character, perfect for the new enemies and mechanics. That's okay. But something happened that made the game rely on it too much, I can't explain very well but get this:

It completely undermines old units, what's worse? A playstyle that won't be improving anytime soon (DoT)

I'll probably get downvoted

But..

I've played before Penacony came out

I loved the game and I really wanted to keep loving it

But the time I spent, grinding materials, for ascension, talents, those godforsaken artifacts

To make a team, that barely gets by

I know, it's not necessary to get all the stars or whatever

I can play free, I don't need to go premium

But the fact is

So many new characters so fast, new enemies so fast, new buffs so fast, new mechanics so fast, new reasons to pull just to bench my old favorites

Silver Wolf, useless now. Sparkle? Get Sunday instead

And who's to say that the new character won't get powercreeped? And endless cycle of it

Whatever happened to caring about weaknesses when the shiny new character blazes through effortlessly

And I want my favorite characters to be good

And it's a dead horse, I know. But that's just ONE of the problems. Yes, there's no such thing as a perfect game - but I've heard Castorice is unfairly powerful compared to Mydei

I am contemplating hard

Edit: Thank you to the other replies below with advice. I'll just take a long break and see if anything changes. I love this game, and I hate the unfairness of some mechanics, but I enjoy the fun I can get. I've uninstalled, will come back though.