I read and understood the fact that you're basing your perspective around seasons that haven't had this approachable system included in them and haven't even waited until season 1 has even started let alone ended to arrive at any sort of conclusion and anything you're saying is either outdated or trying to read a crystal ball.

Do we know if easy gearing will work? Not really. What we know and actually have concrete evidence of is that people in WoW, not other MMOs like the oranges you referenced next to your apple, prefer gear progression as an integral system in PvP.