CY0S was easy to work and we all should have expected it to be easy to work.
Because it was close, as semi-rare ones go, then except for 10m sometimes being too close, we are going to have a 5, 10, maybe 20 dB advantage (for once) on our brethren in Europe. Don't know what it is, but look it up on VOACAP or something. It was surely significant.
So, we get through with a lot less skill this time because when five stations figure out where the DX is going to be next, the winner is going to be among the louder of the five. This time around, that's likely to be one of us. So, of course it is going to take less time. . .and even a little less skill.
When the situation is reversed it means not only do we have to have the skill, we have to have a little luck in being perhaps the only station that guesses right or at any rate, none of the louder ones (as heard by the DX).
So, no, work CY0S and like stations if you enjoy it, that's what we're really here for. But it isn't much of a warmup for winning through even for something as innocuous as 1A0KM.