Methais considering you have zero characters in the top 50 and you never try to maximize your Lumnis, I'm not sure why you think you have any expertise to offer here. I think you may also overestimate Fleurs' contribution as I think her entry for her main was good but not particularly amazing since I nearly matched her (#14) and I don't consider my entry to be close to maximally optimal.

Due to real life stuff, I didn't start my contest attempt until the morning of the last day and didn't do a very good job of preparing (e.g. started lumnis belled, only had enough skins saved for a handful of bounties, no stockpiled herbs), and I was able to get three characters (none of which are burghals) in the top 50. I was actually a pretty surprised that my third character made it in the top 50 as he had no logic enhancives and I was sacrificing his pulses to use him as a gopher for the other two. I am not sure why you think it "requires a fuckton of silver" as I spent zero and finished above the average.

As someone who did usually try to get a lot of my Lumnis before the changes and who finished above the average in the contest, I consider this a very positive change because I no longer feel like I need to go out of my way to alter my playstyle every week to maximize my exp gains. I often join the nightly capped Reim group, and I would sometimes skip an outing if I was on Lumnis because it wasted a lot of pulses off node. Now I don't have to care about that and with zero effort I get more exp than I did before the changes.

Sorry if you are butthurt by facts. I also think it is pretty rich that you complain about snowflakes when you are one of the top crybabies on the officials.