Before it went like this you start with weka creatures then you got out hunt them then you lvl them until you get a hybrid then you level they hybrid up then do the same but in a higher rarity and rinse and repeat till you get an all unique team from there then you just need to get them to lvl 30.
Now you have to that plus do raids plus have to boost which means you have to stick to certain dinosaurs to climb up and since you really can’t refund them you have keep working on just those until you just can progress anymore or you just keep getting smacked down then you got work on better creatures to replace the old ones but you also got to grind only specific ones and you have to boosts them as well until they reach a limit. At the same time you also have to boosts for raids, tournaments, and pve campaign. Repeat and you stick in this endless loop of just being trapped by both boosts the meta and other aspects of the game while being bombarded by rng, alliance pressure, pressure to win and advance