it's not necessarily any more farm-heavy than Anemos but everything is much more gated

you can't even start farming the map currency until EL 25, and then you have to get to an EL 30 level to convert light into crystals

the chokepoints make it much more difficult to reach other parts of the map compared to Anemos, so you're basically stuck in the lower half until around EL 30 or so and can't really join NM trains

since you can't attune to the aethershards (they have high EL requirements) and nobody is running to the events on the north half

I'm only tolerating it by ignoring it until my challenge logs refresh