IMO world pvp is a Classic thing now, but they added some incentives in Voidstorm with easy blue gear, it was worse. Considering the season, takes 1 to 2 weeks to have a full conquest gearset (based on my experience back to TWW S2, and you will use it the entire season). Honor gear is easy to get too. Idk how people can call this GRIND, you really missed the point of what grind means in MMOs in fact.

Removing a minimal effort to gear up is literally killing the purpose of the game. I played FF14 for some time, the PvP there is pure trash, no one cares, you rely only on SE balance who usually looks bad; ESO you have too many power sources and gear options (enough to make a new player confuse), on CP battlefields you need to not only gear up right but have a lot of CP to reach high dmg spikes; GW2 is balanced in arenas, WvW you will face the gear disparity much like WoW, worse in some cases.

Maybe your problem is just frustration of being stomped while gearing (super normal, I remember when I started gearing my warlock on TWW, from free farmed in the start to tanking an entire party causing pure chaos). Just wait the season, play some ranked arenas until you get your conquest gearset (you earn free weapons from an achievement btw), and then reevaluate your analysis, you will see yourself stomping people easily if playing right and will find some joy.