why does gil keep getting underrated?
To be fair Gil's a bit of a gatekeeper, making you jump thru all sorts of hoops to get cool finger sparklies like:
Slime Charmer Ring
Savage Ring
Vampire Ring
Burglar's Ring
Crabshell Ring
Napalm Ring
along with a pleasant variety of fashionable coiffure offsets:
Skeleton Mask
Hard Hat
Arcane Hat
Knight's Helmet
and perhaps my most favorite:
the
Insect Head, which I find
very pleasant to wield.
But butbutbut!!
The most important thing that Gil gatekeeps, other than his life experience exploring and practicing the depths and secrets of laziness, restfulness, delegation of responsibilities, and general slothlike lack of energy use despite maintaining a rocking chair. No, Gil also gatekeeps:

Marlon's Phone Number
Even Marnie doesn't get that but
you can for the small price of burning your everloving rear end off in the Volcano dungeon over the course of a few seasons.
So I get it. Gil's the very definition of a taskmaster. But he's still #1 with Farmer Bobbi at the very top of the tier list as her pathetic attempts at putting in a minimum of effort are dwarfed (

"Don't drag
me into this!") by his utter
lack of attempts, this proving this lowly acolyte has much to learn. If less is more then—
Nothing is everything.
Thus the first step is taken.