Another 11 pages of this drivel.

I'll make it short: SE uses the cash shop to make extra offerings on the side, DLC. They are not the first subscription-based MMO to do so, and won't be the last. It is up to you as a customer to put your money where your mouth is. If you think this practice is immoral, show it by hitting SE where it counts: Your subscription. It sounds as though that's what the OP is doing, and bully for them.

Personally, I don't care about the Mogstation offerings. I don't need them, and I don't buy them. I don't believe that they reduce the quantity of glamour stuff we get in-game, by any degree - they are extra, on top of what we get in-game. As for the looming spectre of pay-to-win, I don't think we're there yet. If that ever changes, I, too, may leave the game. But I don't think it's likely to happen, and no, I don't consider retainers to be pay-to-win.