So let me get this straight about Mega Mewtwo: it costs 7800 energy to go from Mega lvl 1 > 4, but it also costs 7500 energy to unlock mega evolvution altogether on not even and old Mewtwo but on a newly caught opposite X/Y one?

It's not enough that you grind out raids for Mega Mewtwo in general these past 2 months to get a shiny, or a hundo, or a background. If you want to unlock mega and get to lvl 4 on the hundo Mewtwo they passed out to everyone, you need to get 15,300 energy for X (in my case, since my free hundo came with lvl 3 Y but for some reason X was locked). That's ~35 raids PER X/Y.

Then they make it so there's only one X/Y type per day so that if you (god forbid) have a life commitment or emergency and miss one day (my case with X) then you're irretrievably behind. I thought I could catch up today by grinding out Mewtwo Xs but a) much fewer people wanted to do them and b) the server issues made me waste time and lose a few raids and c) I got to 7800 only to realize that that's just enough to UNLOCK X on the free hundo and it'll be like a year of grinding just to get to lvl 3.

I guess I should've seen this coming with the Eternatus roll out but this is just obscene.