That's what the last line about. Difficult jobs are the way they are, but someone has to do them.
What's more important is finding a direction, and being aware of what you're jumping into.
It does feel like the author had a bunch of smaller ideas, but didn't have enough to stretch each out to a full chapter.
That being said, we got to tie up the goddess stones plot point, and bring back some characters who we haven't seen for a while.
I'm sorry, but if you design a game where everything can be ruined by one player, you deserve the mess that will inevitably happen.
That being said, would be interesting to explore what would happen in an mmo if a majority of the NPCs have been killed.
I noticed that the senpai couple have the similar names to the leads in the related oneshot. Family names are different, but everything else is too close to being a coincidence.