It’s been said before, you’re better off taking flying holidays to South Africa, USA/Canada or Eastern Europe to build experience.
Instead of joining a group, hogging the airplane and repeating the same 2-3 hr cross countries.
There’s one long XC required for the CPL and I’ll bet the majority does exactly that, one long XC.
What you should have is 12-15 different XC’s that all meet the CPL requirements.