This is not an issue of trying or not putting in resources. When did we suddenly become ok with the game being on for 3+ hours a day?
Asking 50K is an absolute joke. That's nearly 250 runs per member per day (in a perfectly active clan where everybody does their part) with the load times and auto run delay we're looking at least a minute per run. 4 hours a day from what should be an app for fun.
Plus the longer you require players to play, the more that will be on the servers at any given time. Which of course is not going to help with all the server disconnects.
I know it was started as joke but I'm starting to seriously consider who ever it was who posted that we're just mining bitcoin for the frogs. I honestly can't think of any other reason why they would think it's not unreasonable to have our phones on that long.