Similarities to Black Desert Online and other mmos?

Personally I found watching streams and videos of Lost Ark during the CBT for the past few days gave me a very similar feel to the game as Black Desert did, I saw these two games to have quite a similar style and both these games being Korean it's understandable. I found the sound design and gearing to have resemblance to Black desert, and judging from u/KineticGTR's most recent upload on how endgame gearing works in Lost Ark, it was mentioned to be similar to Monster Hunter's endgame. I however (and i'm sure many other BDO players can understand where i'm coming from with this) can also see a correlation between BDOs gearing and LOAs gearing in the sense that it's a somewhat grind for gear/materials which enable the player to progress. In BDO endgame players are urged to progress and improve their gear to stay competitive in pvp by boss summon scrolls (daily and weekly) in a group which give rewards such and stones which can be used in an RNG system for the chance of a gear upgrade or a decrease in maximum durability. I'm happy to see from KineticGTR's video that RNG should also be present in LOA and my hopes for the game, coming from a BDO player are in comparison: - Lost ark should contain a healthy amount of grinding mobs which shouldn't feel as a chore like Black Desert made it quite tedious at times. - I hope Lost Ark implements a non frustrating RNG system which is easier than BDO but should not be any simpler to obtain high level items and gear. - (this may have some controversy) I wish Lost Ark to have its own difficulties and mystery, in the sense that lots of information about the game will be unknown and there will never be any official guides or official aid to the players who are curious about a topic. How BDO mastered this was by leaving the community to figure out controversial topics themselves and allowing internet content creators, social media and forums to share what they had found encouraging discussion between players online outside the actual game. what this lead to was speculation on certain things and it made the online community work together to find conclusions and this gives the game a very alive community feeling. One rough example I can give was there was a screenshot submitted containing a rare item drop (black crystal shard) obtained whilst filling water into containers. Black Crystal Shards have only been heard to be obtainable via gathering wood, rock ore and in bushes and such. This lead to many players experimenting and trying to recreate the screenshot, sharing their results on social media and forums. Coming to the conclusion after a long flow of discussion that the screenshot was a fake. The community came to a conclusion by working together, this is the type of mystery i'm hoping Lost Ark will also have.

In conclusion I really want LOA to have the Korean styled mmo experience and I hope BDO can provide inspiration for smilegate when it's necessary, I hope Lost Ark can be as amazing as we all hope! I didn't mean anything negative towards anyone or anything, I was just sharing my ideas. Sorry if I said something that angers you of any sort, i'm quite bad at expressing myself sometimes.

TLTR: BDO and LOA have their similarities