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op·tion·al
ˈäpSH(ə)n(ə)l/
adjective
available to be chosen but not obligatory.
"a wide range of optional excursions is offered"
choice
noun:
a range of possibilities from which one or more may be selected.
"you can have a sofa made to order in a choice of over forty fabrics"
You would have the option to buy gear on cash shop or the choice to farm it yourself in game. There, that's what people around here call pay to win (which exactly isn't). But if instead of that filthy vanity that only belong to them useless casuals (please, note the sarcasm) they sold gear, people would lose their minds. Players who want gear, virtual gear which isn't totally necessary (aka BiS) just to make themselves feel like they acomplished something (when they could just get poetics gear!) don't want said items in shop, but screw the rest right, it's just virtual vanity crap!
If you still didn't get it: Both are virtual items for your own enjoyment that are completely useless to someone, but the reason to play for others. People just being biased against each other are the problem here when people is just asking for equality of why one type of players has to pay more and others don't, for the game offers different playstyles. What makes someone more priviledge than others when all of them are paying the same subscription fee?

And just to make it clear. I do raid, gear myself for progression and improvement and I also collect vanity items. Yet I don't feel like one playstyle is less relevant than the other.