The awakening stuff and cosmic talismans seem stupidly hard to accomplish, so I'm just not doing it. Easy for me to say, there's plenty of other things I can accomplish. I've probably got a whole year's worth of things to do, all without caring whether I'm in the upper echelon of a bunch of identical teams with :gasp: PINK stars --!!
If I'd already been playing for a long time, and this was the only thing left for me to accomplish, yeah I'd probably be pretty pissed.