Citadel Spawn Rate & RNG Lottery

Over 100 hours and 300 maps later... I´ve found 1 citadel. I´ve been going to the same direction (south east) the whole time clearing the towers on the way. Then my friend showed his state (like 5-10 hours in) and he had like 3 citadels on the same screen. Some people are making 5 divs per hour farming citadels while I pay 2 div to get access to the content after 100 hours because I can´t get lucky.

The whole RNG thing on this side of the progression of the game feels really, really bad. Instead of being luck based it could be just that like every 30 waystones or 30 bosses a portal spawns and takes you to a fight for the fragments. I dunno mates but this is really grinding my gears here.

I´ve now cleared all the pinnacle bosses in the game as for this season and looking for fragments is way too complicated so need to log off for a while now to get over the frusration. What these mechanics strive for are actually the meta builds (the zoomier the better) because they can just clear a map every 1 min or so and that is actually controversial with their vision.

Love the game but needs a lot of polishing on some of the mechanics to make it more fair. For now it feels like a struggle simulator if you just "don´t get lucky". I can tell you. I don´t. I am known for that :D

The lottery is a nightmare. I played SSF with three chars , but I had to swap to the normal league, because I had no chance to progress (stuck-stuck-stuck):
No gear - no loot - no curreny, so: no crafting (which is a lottery inside the lottery).

I don't want to trade items, but I used the ingame currency exchange, which makes the experience a way more fun and less frustrating