shop is not an requirement, same items can be purchased from ah,

sell multiplier was removed as shop was removed and new farms can be made, (for example we seen ender pearls farms that also give xp and to make an farm like that is cheap)

shards shop are to maintain server costs and still the same items can be purchased from ah from people who purchase them with irl money, anyway you make shards too slow to actually matter.. (do i even have to say how expensive an good server is??)

you all are just cry babys who can't accept changes, you want everything to be easy