ehh... I actually got 0 issues with skills being locked behind rank progression as long as the requirements aren’t wild. If they reduce the battles required in a future remake that’s even better, but my real issue is how quickly a Persona becomes obsolete since its stats don’t really grow, which is heavily apparent in EP. Since your Persona doesn’t get any stat boosts outside of random mutations or cards you’d have no choice but to ditch em after a dungeon or two, and with how fast the game progresses you’ll find yourself constantly changing Personas just for ranking up and I can see that being a slog for folks used to leveling I guess