I'm not wrong though. Just think about how you will obtain gear. You either harvest resources to craft, which is a grind, or you buy gear, which you have to farm for, which is also a grind. If you want to damage npc's better then you need to kill more of them to unlock that part of the knowledge system which is a grind.
Fractured is moving the grind from experience to level a character to other aspects.
. that isn't the correct image but it's a font which we can't access in the chat box
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