Its still around, hasn't died yet, any patches are community driven now though, but there have been a few

Its a consumable, of course I didn't use them. What if I need it later?

Wow

Its normally not about getting good times, often it's tweaking RNG or other elements to get good times faster but ya, it's stupid

Well, I only play elden ring, lies of P, and sekiro. So elden ring.

Putting your thumb on a picture for 3 seconds is hard, apparently