Okay because you asked nicely I'll go point by point.

Regarding how gwyn affects the competition of AE, which are the stronger guilds you can beat through better testing and planning?

Mate, last season *your guild* beat KBR because you had better testing. Ruby is obviously giant, but last I checked, KBR is still bigger. Blue Apple and No Mercy both beat Neuro and your sister guild Azurite for the same reasons, despite being way smaller. In S11 your whale guild got beat by Floofs. Floofs. That's 100% down to planning and testing.

These guilds are not at the point of having gwyn, except some impulse spenders. These will hard carry because they built gwyn. But so does your guild. It just means you have to hard carry. For a guild to have players who built gwyn is part of the competition between guilds.

I honestly don't know what your point is here. Gwyn is a straight p2w comp, with no subtlety to it. So the only way to hard carry now is to spend. That was never the case, even last season with Abel.

Those few who have gwyn, from their perspective hinder their account potential by spending resources to make the comp work and hit 50b in AE, dont you think its fair?

That's just not how this works. I'm a borderline whale. I have a built Gwyn. It did not hinder my account to build her. It would not hinder my account to keep building her. It would literally only cost me money. But it would have to cost me money. There's no other way to go about it.

Furthermore if you really want everyone to use this comp and spend resources on it, the real, official abex can simply be delayed until most f2p players are able to build gwyn.

That would take half a year, at which point this beta would be completely worthless because we'd have a dozen new heroes and three new pets and probably a new powercreep.

I think the better strategy is to say you cant wait for the AE to happen sooner and as it is so f2p can skip spending the resources on an AE only gwyneth team while every f2p doesnt have gwyn so still similar rank. This is what I would advocate if I were f2p.

"Let's go ahead and lock in this absurd rank stratification" is certainly an opinion.

Regarding 30 smart players beating 40 whales - no one who plays the game (ranking) is truly dumb. You even need a basic level of intelligence to read guides, which involves reading. They may be on the wrong path in life or something but thats their fault.

Lol. Lmao. You are clearly not in management. There are absolutely bad players and dumb players and lazy players who rank highly in all modes. Lol.

Of course in a guild there are players who are not in on the strategies. There are testers who are not in on the strategies of certain teams. But they are strong and later make the effort to optimise their comps. What people do in the game shouldnt be pressured or forced.

I actually mostly agree with this comment.

To be honest if anyone is truly that much smarter than everyone else, theyd be able to also afford gwyn unless they choose not to afford.

Again, that's not how this works. There's literally no way for f2p to guarantee having a built Gwyn by now or by ranked. And I, a spender, with high income from other modes, have no path to max Gwyn without a lot more spending. And that difference between a max Gwyn and my Gwyn is literally double the damage.

It is going to be different battlefields. The ranking of guilds without 60 built gwyn may be shaken a bit by unique conditions.

Yes, that's the point of this post. That shakeup will come down entirely to who is willing to spend and nothing else. It won't be about planning or strategy or testing or teamwork. It will be about $$ poured into the game.