Let's be real here, the game is not designed for you to be playing it in increments across a timespan of 5+ years, so this is more of an issue with development times than anything else.
All of the previous episodes have been unfinished betas. The final product is meant to be played all at once.
I absolutely loved Xenosaga. But I understand that not everyone will enjoy it, which is why I think those people shouldn't play it. It would be less than pointless for someone who hates cutscenes and dialogue to play Xenosaga and then upload a video of him/herself complaining about how Xenosaga is a garbage game whenever it has a bunch of dialogue.
Because all of the overly impressionable viewers would naively decide "hey, this person's right, Xenosaga is a garbage game!!"
He made it quite clear that he doesn't care about the game anymore? That the only reason he's trying to finish it is because his viewers want him to?
Unless you think his 40-minute "I don't care about any of this, I just wanna stop playing" spiel was all emotional and spur-of-the-moment without any truth behind it?
My team was all around Level 75 and I didn't have too much trouble with it? Granted, my experience might have been an outlier and the gauntlet may indeed be in need of a nerf.