Ngl, since I'm not focused on racing to 99/feeling like I need to be crazy efficient, I'm quite enjoying the skill so far. Not caring about efficiency and rushing things has been a blessing tbh; first time I felt that "new" feeling in awhile. Haven't really felt this way since I was a kid using a granite maul to train combat stats at water elementals
Although I went into this with a different mindset then most ; wasnt thinking/needing it to be a "fast" skill to train early nor that I had to rush 99 to get back a maxed cape or something
Post level 30 gets really quite faster anyway; so many people expect it to be fast af early levels since most other skills are; ie, skipping most early content.
I like that they made it start slow early so you engage with the content. It'd be stupid to create a new skill and have all the early content able to be skipped/instantly be dead content.
I find it unfortunate that so many people are efficiency/instant gratification types now-a-days, however, society has shifted this way significantly over the years so it's to be expected (think: yt shorts/reels/short form media, battle royals, etc all becoming very popular).
I feel bad for folks who aren't able to enjoy the content because of the shift in mindset that really isnt cognoscente/conscious.