I’m always in favor of more challenging content (and this one being permanent is a rare blessing considering FGO history when it comes to “quality of life” features), but once again the devs seems to have abandoned the idea of Advanced Quests after only two years since their introduction.
It’s very sad considering they could have replaced the Exhibition Quests that we lost during Lottery Events (which in my opinion still had a better design, but at least they resolved the bad timing issue with A.Q. being permanent): imaging levelling to the max all your favourite servants and then all you can do for several months between story chapters is send them to farm some QPs and materials…
At the very least, with the Quartzs reward for Advanced Quests added in the recent anniversary, I managed to get one copy of Basatoria, so they served a purpose I guess: I’ve yet to use any of the drop bonus CEs for ascension materials, but that’s probably because it’s a feature aimed towards newer accounts that need a lot of old mats.