Quote Originally Posted by Karifean View Post
(SPOILER)The grinds were kind of annoying, but thanks to the AFK encountering trick you can circumvent the boredom at least. Still rather poorly designed IMO.
Without wishing to necessarily absolve the game, that is entirely deliberate and indeed part of the point of that route - you're supposed to question whether it's worth it. sans makes this pretty explicit in the Last Corridor on this route, and (SPOILER)his whole gambit is exactly the same; to make you give up out of annoyance.