It's literally half of all revenue. You wanna split more hairs instead of addressing the fucking point? Maybe do it by yourself.

Every game with this shit is made worse. That's the only way it works. There's some version of the game that's optimized for your enjoyment - and you are granted brief glimpses of it, for money. Frustration, disappointment, and exclusion are all openly abused to shove you toward throwing away more actual money. And again: there's examples of this shit in every genre, in MMOs, in single-player games, et very cetera.

Not that I should have to justify the problem's existence to someone who already said:

I don’t think this monetization scheme is valid.

THEN STOP DEFENDING IT.

Fuck!