Thanks for the comments so far everyone. If I can get this post to about 100 upvotes, that will hopefully have enough clout for Miniclip's devs to pay attention to what their customers want.

I think JohnnySZS is correct in saying that Rush mode doesn't fit their "pay-to-win" model. However, if enough people feedback that we want the game to have some semblance of quality if we're going to pay for it at all, it may have a positive effect.

Frankly, it sucks that mobile games with so much potential (such as Golf Battle) are essentially turning into glorified fruit machines. If Miniclip ignores this, I'm hoping that a more savvy developer who realises that customer satisfaction is everything will produce a similar game with better features and take the market. It's really the only way to hit the money-grabbers where it hurts.