It took some time but I read this entire thread and through all the incongruencies in robin's "facts" and just washing off everyone, literally everyone), who doesn't agree with him/her I think it's safe to say that S/he is simply arguing to argue. Clearly Robin speaks for no one but him/herself and at that does a very poor job at it. You simply cannot have an MMO without grind and the fact that Robin never laid out a framework to prove against that only further justifies it.
To you Robin: Take your advice and walk away from the game if it's not fun for you. Clearly you feel your being misunderstood but I think the problem here is you've failed to understand the system to the point of having it snowball to 16 pages of people putting you back on track.