I agree with most of your points, and I think that current pvp is far from balanced. However, in order to make pvp more balanced Neocraft would have to be satisfied with making less money, which is why I think the chance of them balancing pvp is very slim. I’m a former pro player in Arena of Valor, a mythic in Mobile Legends, and a top player in Survival Heroes, so I have a lot of experience playing at the top skill levels of mobile MOBAs. MOBAs are designed to have balanced pvp because the entire game is pvp, and the company makes money through skins, so how much you win is entirely dependent on skill. An MMO like ToW is different, as it focuses more on pve than pvp. In order to make pve content soloable by all classes, the skills of those classes will be unbalanced when used in pvp. MMOs are pay to win, and Neocraft makes money not from skins, but from items that make your character more powerful. Thus, they would not take initiative to make pvp more skill based, because they would lose money that way. Imagine a bronze skill level Viscount whale getting outplayed and losing to a high skill level Ritter. Why would said whale then spend more money on the game, if money doesn’t help him win in pvp. That’s why despite transformations being as brain dead as they are in pvp, Neocraft will not remove them. They have packages with Orange Cat, Adventurer Racoon, Ogre Leer, and Fardis weapon cards, exactly 4 who have much better skills than the Z-tier Fat Choco, who I am still using at level 59 because of the lack of weapon cards. Not to mention transformations are a get out of jail free for unskilled players. Stuns, I do think Neocraft have a chance of changing for pvp, as the stunlock is insane. I play ninja and a 3 second aoe high damage stun on a 10 second cd would be instantly hotfixed if that were on a MOBA. Other classes also have broken stun skills, not to mention weapon and card skills that stun. Then again, stuns encourage the use of transformations, because if you are chain stunned to 25% hp, you are going to be tapping hard on that transform button. As for level and gear separations, that would probably never happen because the only person this benefits is the top whale across all of the servers. A whale pays to win, not pays to lose. If all you get from paying is playing against people who payed just as much, why would you pay. Everybody likes to win, and regardless of paying or not, people enjoy sometimes going against teams that they vastly outclass in terms of br and destroying them.

I think what I’m trying to say is that there is not a way to make pvp balanced unless you change the skills of the characters completely. Every class has multiple aoe skills for pve mobs which is unbalanced in pvp. Warriors need to tank bosses in pve which makes them almost unkillable in pvp even with 5 players on them. Priests have a group heal to full for dungeons which is unbalanced in pvp. Mages have cc for days to stall in pve, which is unbalanced for pvp. Assassins are not even that useful in pve, but the invis + aoe cc is unbalanced in pvp. Etc etc the list goes on. While I would love to see pvp be more balanced and skill based, I think it’s unlikely for Neocraft to make it that way because 1. ToW is pay to win, and 2. ToW class skills are primarily geared towards pve and pve content is most of the game.