I'm really not sure what their company is thinking with turning out boy groups this fast. WAKER has a couple songs I like, and it looks like they had been steadily gaining fans, but then they had a two year break from 2024 to 2026, and I can't help but wonder if that's because they spent 2025 focusing on CHASER. And they took so long getting CHASER out that they lost three members from pre-debut to debut. And now we have ASCENDER.
Wishing the best for them (all three groups, really), but it always worries me a bit when it seems like a company's strategy is "see what sticks and immediately move on if it doesn't."