No, but it is an insult to gaming as a whole. This is something Capcom expects MANY people to play. It's not just a small time phone game, it's a social RPG that is expected to have tons of players. And it's insulting, that it would dumb the game down so much as to make you able to skip levels. Its not a matter of how HARD it is, it's a matter of there being gameplay at all to begin with. if those skip buttons turn out to be exactly what they seem to be, I can just breeze through everything without ever setting foot in stages. start the stage? SKIP. Get to the boss? SKIP. rinse, repeat. I get no items, or less of them, but what do I care? I just blazed through that!
man, what a WASTE of TIME slogging through an all flat autoscrolling shooter stage would have been! whew! dodged a bullet there!
Why the [tornado fang] do you all take offense to [tornado fang]ing everything? It's like the whole fanbase is filled with a bunch of hyper-sensitive butthurt people who sit around waiting for the smallest details so you can throw a bitchfit over it.
It's like getting offended that Pokemon has the feature to play as a girl because you don't think girls should play Pokemon - or better analogy here being getting offended at an easy mode option.
Just get over it. It's nothing worth getting offended over. Hell, some people might even
like the skip function and if they do then good for them, you have no right to tell other people how they should play and enjoy their gaming. It's nothing worth getting insulted over.
That's just dumb. You're dumb for taking some game that seriously that you get offended over an optional button that no one is making you use.