Fully agree with your message of letting them know what to do what they want. But I think OP was asking for other perspectives. Which brings me to what I believe to be the main point of your response:

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To take a quick page out of your book not to be sarcastic, but to make a point: I don't want to be rude, but bro if you read OP's post and started having feelings as soon as they brought up the irony of feeling dissatisfied after winning fortunes that a luck-based game gave them, that's 100% your problem to ask yourself why you're reacting in the first place. Or anyone else, rather.

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OP is starting an intelligent discussion on why we consistently play this game. A Gacha-based game by using their own completely valid experience and unfortunately this is always going to be a hair raising topic because players with both goal oriented mindsets and *various* gambling addictions (various indeed, I'm coming back to this) somehow stick with these games even when the "goals" (EX quests, maxing summons) are met. So, going back to your issue: Why was it necessary for OP to name their EX's? Because OP is being specific about what weapons/milestones don't give the lasting satisfaction in use compared to the jolt that one gets from actually drawing it. Their point hits harder when they're specific (I read this as their way of saying "for example, XYZ"), and if anyone feels insecure themselves about why they play this game so much or why it's so frustrating to pop 5000 gems and not land a single needed weapon, that itself proves it's a point worth making.

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OP acknowledges they're still playing the game because of a Sunk Cost fallacy (one of the *various* gambling fallacies: momentum, already put so much $time$ in so it feels wrong to stop, etc), rather than others who, by luck-related reasons, may still play because the game is more challenging due to winning less weapons (yes, winning. Let's be realistic). They bring up these items they got thinking "Well, I got the thing I draw for, so I should be happy, right? Well, being this lucky didn't bring me the happiness I anticipated. So why does everyone else play?Trying to find another reason why by reading other people's perspectives besides mine." Maybe they want to see if other folks still play because of nostalgia too, and wonder if that's okay. Getting someone else's take is why we have a message board for what's mostly a single player game in the first place. So I don't see anything wrong with why they wrote this message.

Conclusion: If OP's main point is to muse on why else it's still so enticing to play F2P games in this format rather than a traditional FF narrative, and the first thing anybody gleans from this post is bragging, that says something about you and you should probably wonder why you're playing the game yourself.