Nah. It's a pretty common problemsetting approach to use an existing game, it's a constructive problem like 50% of constructive problems (ad-hoc, the other 50% are instead reduced to extremely standard) and with the playground site provided, you can't even complain that it's too annoying to simulate locally (it is, which is why there's a playground site). I don't like constructiveforces in general but this is a completely normal constructiveforces problem.

Codeforces should be about the player's ability to code

My code is $$$169$$$ lines long :D (203960705)