Its literally the same thing. How can it be any of those things you listed?
And pretty much all of the bugs got ironed out within the first few days. If you want to be disengenuous, you may want to be accurate at least.
And imo it’s better than time rifts because you can’t afk and get credit. You have to participate to fill the bar.
There is also not an annoying portal that has a population cap like timerifts which would lock participants out.
Oh and the rep is not painful/time consuming at all.
So 3 positive changes right there lol.
Except when it forces you to participate to get credit unlike timerifts or the superbloom.