Continued examples of being punished for investing.

I've been playing for almost 2000 days and really for the first time I feel punished for investing in teams. Astral was a flop with battleword being a huge waste of time and, lets face it, when it returns will still be a giant pile of crap game mode but invested in astral thinking it was something that was gonna be great. Shadow King isn't even valuable in dark dimensions. Absolute A-force, outside of 1 line Medusa's passive is all war only. Wasp and Ironheart don't even have synergies with the rest of the team. Frozen Dimension where they were supposed to be a star, I got lucky on medusa and got her unlocked f2p and brought her to 100/19/iso 3 and the last node doesn't even have war buffs so that is a waste. Not that the rewards were great, but hey could have run it 3 times for node rewards. Alliance war has been a waste of time and that is coming from someone whose alliance will probably push top 100 this season. Why invest in more war teams? The new spotlight raid team is gonna be needed which is fine to push a bit but I just do not feel like investing in characters feels like a safe thing to do anymore. I am doing millions of gold and training materials and not sure any of these characters are gonna come off the bench in a regular enough manner to have been worth it.