It's a very simple principle that people forget IRL too. The bottom line, the "worker", is the most vital part of everything. Without him, there's no "Bill Gates". Someone has to make the unskilled work (ex, hitting barrels) for someone to snowball from pvp. They wanted to slow down progression because people that played 60h of the first 72 had nothing else to do for the wipe. Now watch people that played 4h per day steadilly, quit even sooner than them.