Bro I literally understand how you feel, I was good friend with Jinzoo too I cameback 2 days ago to catch up with him and found out he stopped pro. Shame he was a nice guy. If you read this Jinzo pm me (it's Haskell).
They completely ignored pve players, as a result many players left the game for good,I have lost many friend in game due to this update which is quite unfortunate.
I am a pvp player and it took me 2 days to get from 80 to 300 evolutions, it's not hard at al I know many players that have done around the same time some even faster.