Trial of Chaos wastes your time
This trial has to be among the worst activities you can do in this game. Not talking from the perspective of profit or anything, but just... to have fun, which for me involves killing lots of monsters.
There are so many small delays that just cause irritation without being necessary, like the door that you have to stand in front of for a moment before it fully opens, or the elevators which you can't stand on right away or it won't go up, or the trial master stopping time for no reason.
And that's just the small stuff. Half the rooms literally can't be done any faster even if you had a skill that just says "all enemies die". The statue escort is limited by the pace of the statue, and there aren't even that many monsters to fight to make it interesting. The 90 second afk arena is even worse, since you just stand there and every 20 seconds you get to fight 10 monsters that die instantly, and the timer can't be shortened. Even the sacrifice circle room quickly becomes tedious when you realize you're limited by the spawn rate of the monsters rather than your build. The result of this is I often find myself standing in an empty area waiting for the game to do something instead of actively progressing by doing some kind of mechanic or fighting.
I have my problems with the game but I appreciated that the ceiling is really high. You don't need to grind day in and day out to have a very satisfying amount of power, but there is always the potential to go for more. Except in Trial of Chaos, where no matter how powerful you are, it still takes the same amount of time because there are so many parts of it that can't be shortened.
This is also made worse by the existence of the Trial of Sekhemas, which solves a lot of these problems. It's not a great fix, since that trial is largely based on how fast you can move, but it's still better than having no agency at all. The hourglass room lets you reduce your remaining time for each rare you kill, often resulting in pretty fast times. The escape room isn't all that different from statue escort, except you go at YOUR pace, and just have to hit all the checkpoints. The ritual room is just like the sacrifice circles but you can just kill the enemies right away and move on, instead of waiting for the next round to spawn.
