OP, I advise you to just give up trying to discuss anything with this certain part of the community, and just vote with your wallet (the only and true language that SE will hear and understand). It's just not worth it. I talk from years of experience here and in other games (which either flopped or became full P2W... or both at once). Many of us tried to warn the community about this, about the path that the game is following slowly but steadily, and that was met with the exact same replies that you're getting now. It's sad that some people seem unable to see that over time they keep paying more and more while they get less things in return, not to mention the glaring issues that we've been suffering since 2.0. Even worse, they even try to defend it.

There's other gaming companies with better ethics than SE out there. I know that it sucks, especially if you invested a lot of time and money here, but you're just hitting a wall with your head. It's better to devote that energy and time to play something else that you can enjoy on your terms.