You grind only if you want.The game should be fun, not work. Because it seems that there are a lot of people here to whom real life presents everything on a plate, so they do nothing in their lives except stupidly grind in all sorts of elites day and night. I don't have to carve out a few hours of MY real life on a pointless grind after work.
Instead of offering interesting gameplay in both single and cooperative mode with many friends (not just three). The developers have replaced everything with a dull grind for the sake of an even bigger and bigger grind.
You can do anything, mining, exploring, pvp, pve. without grind.