This is why I didn't want this to be a Mogstation evil thread - because that's another very messy can of worms.
I came from the era before WoW had a cash shop, like quite a number of people here. You bought the game and subscription and that was it.
Ideally for me, in a MMO where you b2p and pay a subscription, there should be no cash shop. Everything should be earnable in-game.
However, I've seen the arguments that MMO costs have gone up and partially accepted that the cash shop is a necessary evil. I'm fine with the cash shop selling things like the whale/peacock mount etc
The Cruise Chaser however is different. As others have pointed out, it's reusing in-game assets and could have been tied into in-game content.
Is this a slippery slope, where we see more in-game assets re-used in the cash shop in the future?
Maybe or maybe not.