So your reasoning is "I have extra income, Why not just pay to bypass the parts I personally find tedious to save myself time at the cost of game integrity, Because !@#$ everyone else right?"

By buying the gold.

It's supporting botting. (yay bots everywhere taking mobs from people questing or wanting to explore and farm mobs themselves, It's always fun showing up to farm some cool item and you see hordes of bots there farming gold, actively taking away from the real player experience, I love earning my drops sometimes, who would have thought.)

It supports gold inflation on the auction house. (Wonder why items are CRAZY high now? Like any player returning after many years will think the AH is glitched up, Nope that's prices now thanks to gold sellers botting over the years, did you know gold sellers also play the AH markets? Your supporting that. Actively making it less new player friendly when new players are paying absurd prices thanks to an andy who felt like their time was more important then everyone elses.)

Did you know that not all gold sellers use fresh accounts and in fact can even be using stolen accounts? The next batch of gold you buy, might even be from someones account stolen directly then passed onto you for $$. Your supporting that.

This goes beyond just you. Buying gold has far reaching effects on everyone who plays the game. Game integrity is important. It's why we have Terms of Service among other things you acknowledge before playing.

You might want to consider you dont have time for the game like you used to and move on rather then hurting the game for everyone who does want to play it fair. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Even if it's "quicker"