You make it the way you want. If you think it is a chore than it will be a chore. If you think it is an opportunity to relearn all the COs and learning is fun for you than it won’t be a chore. Someone said it’s a mindset thing and it is about the mindset. It is entirely up to you.
This should be the attitude. There are many ways to enjoy the game without thinking it as a punishing grind.
There are 54 new ways to play all the COs. For most prestiges you need new ways to optimize build orders and new ways to engage each enemy comps. There are about 14-16 enemy comps in total?, about 5-6 for each race. How do you optimize your build for each of the 54 prestige to fight each enemy comp and how to you do it on each map. There is a lot room for exploration.
And you see it on the forums with different people posting questions and suggestions contributing to the community. The forum became so active because of this.
Yes it can.