Man, I said it like a hundred times now. I’m complaining about people like you coming up with all sorts of delusional crap and excuses to fabricate a narrative just to pretend that your favored game is not called pay2win, when clearly it’s full of such mechanics.
It’s not intellectually honest. It doesn’t fool anyone.
The simple reality is that all the EVE guys look at other games, point at them and say “what a pile of pay2win garbage”, while the fans of that game are coming up with convoluted stories like your OP to justify why it is not. Meanwhile they point over at EVE and say “look what a pile of pay2win garbage, you can literally buy everything with money”.
It’s the exact same thing
in
every
single
game
And in reality they are all full of pay2win mechanics.
Just admit it. You don’t have to stop playing EVE, it’s not like the world out there is any better, it’s basically the same everywhere now. But unless we are honest about our own game we like and let the developer know that is the f-enough already, they will simply not stop and add more and more and more of that crap until it’s more shop than game.