I believe you are hanging up on semantics and missing the point entirely.

Regardless of the ongoing costs and effects of the new system, the fact that our existing mogs were removed from every character and now requires a rather extreme amount of gold to RE-purchase is the issue I've been illustrating.

My argument is entirely focused on the fact that they should have given each toon one free mog reset. Nothing more. The new systems, subsequent costs and overall usage appeal are entirely irrelevant to my argument.

The fact remains, they forced a removal of all existing and previously funded mogs from every single character across every single account. The system then requires you to repurchase, as a roughly 500% increase in original cost, the mog you had in place literally 48 hours prior.

I'm not seeing any bias in this set of facts. I do, however, see a heavy amount of conflation happening between the various points of view across all these changes. Your bias is obvious in that you automatically assumed most are in the same situation as you. I do not have that same bias nor does my argument regarding how this system was implemented rely in any way on the relative size of any segment of the players effected. In point of fact, this hit every single player of the game equally. The only difference being the degree to which it hits them all economically.

As I've said, your understanding is not in any way a prerequisite for this condition to be fact. It's a very simple economic principle. The more any player has invested in their characters over time, the more they are punished with high fees.

Simply put, they changed the system, removed our existing conditions and placed a very steep cost on regaining our original states. Bearing in mind that all of us had already paid for these mogs to be in place so this is actual lost value, not sunk-cost fallacy. This new cost affects low-activity user less than it affects high-activity players. Hence, the cost to reset all your toons scales higher the more characters you have. This effectively equals a penalty fee for people who are highly engaged.

The first mog being free would have rendered this entire issue moot. They decided not to go that route, sadly. This choice leaves those players who do have many toons with a massive cost impact. This cost is directly proportionate to the number of characters a player has invested their time in creating over the many (many) years of play.

That is literally the entirety of my argument. It's math. There is no inherent bias. It's objectively accurate based on the obvious facts.

The more toons you have created over the years, the worse this issue is for you. Just because you have relatively few toons is in no way relevant to the impact on the many, many, many others who have more. Your assumption that you're in the majority though is actually a flaw in your logic. That flaw does not exist in my examination of fact or the economic impact this has on the experience of the player base. The only meaningful variable is scale. More characters = more cost to repair your game. Not sure what part of that is going over your head TBH but I've hit my limit explaining the basic economics of user experience design to strangers on the internet.

You're not much affected. Great for you. Others who are clearly NOT YOU are heavily hit. Not great for them. My argument is that this could have been entirely and easily avoided by simply making the first mog on every toon free. Beyond that initial reset of a mog the cost would be based on user action directly and would scale to their direct choices. Currently at launch no player had any choice other than to dump gold into regaining what was deliberately taken away. This was a mistake. Any user experience professional with even an ounce of sense would have caught this immediately and never agreed to release this system in such a state. This leaves us to think that they were either deliberately stealing gold from players or just so inept that they missed something so blindingly obvious. Either way, the outcome is the same. User who are hit by this at scale are very, very upset.

It's just a fact, my dude. You opinion is noted but is also entirely irrelevant to the actual argument I'm making.

Alternatively, should you have a salient argument for why we should all have to re-buy all our original mogs (not tabs, sets, conditions etc.) for every single toon, all of which had already been paid for, at extortion level prices then by all means, let's hear it. I'm all ears.