Is Latale really good?

I never managed to like it. It looks fun, it felt fun at first, but when I played it, I found myself doing the same exact thing I did in MapleStory: Grind and quest grind.

I want to be an engineer because I like being the tech guy, but I found myself button-mashing/holding and mostly relying on turrets to kill my enemies, while the other classes get actiony early on. That, or maybe I don't remember right.

Anyways, they say the PvP is great and it has other great things and that leveling goes faster if you have a good party and friends to work with, but that's just it.

I wasn't as good at PvP, and the turrets weren't enough, and nobody likes it when I used turrets in duels. I couldn't find anyone who would let me join them or would want to stay in a party, so I found myself doing the same thing in maplestory, which is, like I said above, quest grinding and sometimes just plain grinding, and it was tedious.

Then, I'm not surprised by it, but I found that the engineer is powerful at end-game, especially when I get my mecha, but I have to wait until friggin end-game before I reach that, and for what? More grinding and quest grinding but with a few more players, a mecha, and a little bit of PvP?

I'm not sure if everything I said is true or accurate, but I kinda want to know. Is LaTale really good? What does it have? How do I find friends and groups? How fast is the road to level 80? Is the Engineer good? Does it get tedious like Maple Story?