Just a couple things. Lots of people do PP and try to win with nothing to gain. No achievements, no xp, or rewards. They enjoy trying to win. The win trader thing is probably way overblown. Except when you are talking a few hundred globally a few make it look bad. What no one seems to discuss is the players that have 10+ characters on boards across data centres. Again not a big deal, except again in the context a few hundred globally.
I think SE is frugal and it is easy to recycle if not outright reuse old assets. Some of the new gear sets in EW are already reused.
