So.. is 2024 banquet still better than 2023?

It’s probably objectively better this year than last, but even as someone who’s pretty Kabam positive and easily impressed (at least by this forum’s standards), I gotta say this is the first time I can remember where I just didn’t really feel anything with the banquet pulls. I’m ftp and I never grind units or anything, so I never hit anywhere close to the top milestones or any of the big goodies, but it hasn’t usually stopped me from enjoying myself before. This ain’t it unfortunately.

Also, as someone who’s not remotely gonna max out the milestones, I gotta say having glorious guardian sig stones in the earlier milestone rewards feels crummy. When tf am I gonna dupe a glorious guardian? Am I just gonna sit on these sig stones for over a year, or will I have to fork over an extremely rare 7* awakening gem (if I ever get one) just to make the sig stones actually usable?