You have trouble thinking outside of your tiny box and you are clearly mad about decisions you aren't able to comprehend. Creating 2 separate paths for "player a" who enjoys being stronger and doesn't care if others are able to gain the same level of strength and "player b" who only cares about having more stuff than the next guy makes the most people happy. I've already seen people claiming they can't wait to get started on the glow trial. Call them insane if you want because they probably are but it doesn't change the fact that the dev team was smart for making a different path to keep them happy while putting the meat of the trial on stage 1 which will keep the 99% that aren't willing to do stage 2 happy.