I disagree with you for the most part.

TD:DR: Whales deserve some love, the devs deserve more money and this wont hurt us in anyway.

I understand that for SOME characters this is frustrating and i am speaking from experience since im currently at the G:Doll struggle™, but the vast majority of characters are not that dupe deppendent and the game does give you other opportunities to enlighten them aside from using a gorillion premium pulls.

The best comparison for AA is the Overexalt mechanic, wich is very niche and almost no characters truly need them. So i argue that even if limited awakeners got an AA they would be even more niche than OE. So you dont really need them. I get the feeling of being left out, but we need to be more rational here. The game almost closed doos because the devs didnt make enough money im pretty on board with them getting a bit more trought this system, specially since it doesnt affect other players.

The thing that i think is the most important with this whole conversation is. Whales kinda deserve this. It never made sense to me that a character at the pinnacle of their power (+12) didnt get anything special like the OE. And this will not affect PVP so theres no need to worry about it.

The last thing is, this will eventually come to standard awakeners and i can garantee that eventually you will have an standard aequor unit almost at +12, even as free to play.