RMT is obviously cheating and people should get banned for it, but I do wonder why anyone would bother with it?
I think it would be a bigger problem if there was ANYTHING worth buying with money. All the good stuff is in allagan tomestones and coil. Housing costs a lot of money. Certain furniture pieces can be expensive. pentamelded high end gear will dance the line of being coil ready, but to progress in this game you don't actually need any money.

and the /tells are annoying but at least they aren't shouting in every city anymore.

However I do think it's interesting when game like D3 endorse and monopolize RMT and others EVE & wildstar allow you to buy/sell/trade game time with in game and real world money and also tacitly look the other way at RMT in the name of sandboxness.

I do NOT think there is a place for that in this game at the moment. But its certainly an interesting concept when done right