Most of Melinda’s team didn’t have it.
That wasn’t entirely true. They didn’t have the amount of drive needed to truly complete The Path. Anyone who wasn’t Matt needed to be delving up a full Tier by Tier 7 to keep pace with the regular schedule. A team that size would need to be pushing up yet another Tier, until at least Tier 10 rifts, where the essence per monster increased substantially. While Melinda negated the second biggest impediment of being injured, and thus having longer and longer healing cooldowns, Luna didn’t think they had the drive to delve back-to-back. They’d have to do it over and over and would have to delve many Tiers above their own for decades.
Time would always be against them.
That was why the early Tiers were the best place to get ahead. Rifts were plentiful,
