Attrition was poorly designed. You should be able to get revives on teammates throughout the whole match, nor just in the end stage when you run out of lives. Makes the revive challenges very difficult, and the get 3 revives in one round achievement dang near impossible. Will be happy when this week is over and I can be done with Attrition challenges.

I'm terrified that the final ultimate challenge for the week is going to be for revives.

We will see. If it was truly AAA I feel like they would have invested in a bigger dev team, especially since the first game was a total mess that reviewed poorly. They have only expanded by like 20 devs since the first game I think, their current 75 devs is extremely small for a AAA, the last AAA game I can think of that had a team size below 100 devs was released in like 2008, since then AAA dev team sizes have ballooned considerably, the bare minimum to be considered AAA these days is like 120 devs, and most the average is over 200 devs. 

No matter what way you slice it, what MS has been doing with hatting timed exclusives since Rise of the Tomb Raider in 2015, is nothing like what Sony has been doing the last few years with their moneyhats. Sony's timed hat deals:

• Mostly from high end AAA publishers like Square Enix, Bethesda, and Capcom (rumored). The only exceptions to this rule so far are the KOTOR remake, which is being made by an untested studio who made ports in the past (but are nonetheless AAA sized and have been hiring high end AAA talent from other studios like Bioware), and Bioshock 4 (rumored exclusive, being made by a new, untested studio at 2K games, but is nonetheless a AAA sized studio with a AAA budget behind it)
• Several of them are from established AAA series rather than being new IP, namely KOTOR remake, Bioshock 4 (rumored), Street Fighter 6, FF7 Remake, and FF16
• In many cases they have purposefully targeted studios and series which have a history of working with Xbox in the past, like Arkane (once made Xbox console exclusives), Bioshock 4 (the first Bioshock was a 1 year timed Xbox 360 exclusive), KOTOR remake (KOTOR was an OG Xbox console exclusive), and of course it was rumored that they tried to hat Bethesda's Starfield as well, though thankfully Zenimax decided not to sell timed on Starfield to Sony because they thought that Starfield would make a good bargaining chip to increase what MS was willing to pay to acquire Zenimax (Bethesda of course has long been associated with Xbox, Morrowind being OG Xbox console exclusive, Oblivion being 1 year Xbox 360 timed exclusive, Fallout 3 and 4 and Skyrim all having marketing deals with Xbox). Sony very clearly was specifically targeting games that Xbox fans in particular would want to play in an attempt to make Xbox fans feel forced to buy a PS5. 
• All either 1 year, 2 years, or in the case of Final Fantasy, recently rumored to be lifetime exclusives

The two biggest Xbox hat deals in recent years are Ark 2, a game from a AA sized studio (with an unknown timed hat duration), and STALKER 2, a game from a dev that sits in the middle area between AA and AAA, which is a series that has never released on any console before, and is only exclusive for 3 months.

I'm well aware that it is popular, but that doesn't mean it is good imo. I waited for the Series X graphics update version before ever touching it, and even it didn't look very good to my eyes, and the earlier versions were darn near unplayable between the framerate and the awful graphics (especially the aliasing artifacts as I am very aliasing averse). On top of that, I thought the gameplay was pretty meh, the UI was a disaster, there was poor guidance on what to do to even get started properly. I gave up playing it after about 3 hours. 

I have somewhat higher hopes for Ark 2 as it did look like they are putting more effort into it than the first one, at least based on the reveal trailer from the 2020 game awards. But I definitely don't think it will be a masterpiece, and if the predictions from Ryuu's Opencritic prediction league are any indication, most other people think it won't review very well either, the current average prediction for it is like 71 or 72 I think, I actually have the highest prediction for it in the whole league at 79. 

Would be nice if they don't do one event per year...

But in this case, maybe Part 1 - Part 2? Have a little 10 minute break, figure out how to split it, I wouldn't really want to sit around non-stop for 2+ hours.

With all their new studios, Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard and when they really get into the groove, they will easily be able to fill more than 2 hours when we also account for third parties which aren't likely to be dropped.

Hopefully will get better in the future.

And yet there are more people playing it on PC than Halo, GoW and FFXIV, with all their accolades, 90s and GOTYs; for whatever reasons.
Obviously these people are finding something in it that you and the critics didn't. That is why is so important to have variety, because "the masterpiece" of one man can be "the trash" of another, and viceversa.