Just give up bro. Gamers are a lost cause. Even when you boycott a trashy cashgrab, they'll buy 4 copies for every 1 you boycott. MMO fans are some of the most whipped of the bunch. FF14 commits so many sins that other MMOs get lambasted for, but they aren't outright farting in our faces like pearl abyss or activision so people are like "w-we eatin' good!"
It's terrible. Just enjoy what you like and try to block out the sound of the entire genre melting around you from bad decision enabling going back decades. The defense force isn't needed; the battle was probably already decided back when maplestory took off in the west and showed the industry that a f2p monetization method can work. Hell, the battle arguably was lost when WoW started selling mounts. It's been dead for a while. A walking corpse on fire, reeking of waste.