What's disgusting is your reading comprehension. Ultimate weapon holders are a minority of the population but the majority of them wanted a reasonable trial to get to 99. And I never once said that there would be a mass exodus but "people like me" would have quit. Let me try to break it down for you. Here's the 3 possible situations:

Only an impossible trial:
(a)Players without weapons: Unaffected
(b)Players with weapons that want a reasonable trial (majority): Unhappy, Angry, possible rage quit.
(c)Players with weapons that need exclusivity to be happy (minority): Pleased I guess?

Only a reasonable trial:
(a)Unaffected
(b)Happy
(c)Bored, probably quit after a few months

Current plan for stage 1 and 2 trials:
(a)Unaffected
(b)Happy, They have their 99 relic at 99.9% of full power which is good enough for most.
(c)Happy, They have something to work for that will truly set them apart from the crowd.

Now which one looks like the right decision for a company to make? You're going off on tangents about entitlement and whining but the focus of your first post was how this was a stupid decision. My argument is that you lack the critical thinking skills to understand why they would have done this and why this option is the most beneficial to both the players and the company assuming they HAD to make some insane trial.