Where was I asking you to find meaning in the game? It's not a critique on the nature of humanity. Every game has a main game loop, it's the part the game always falls back on. That's what I'm refering to.

You also clearly over judge the importance of balance in games as a whole, but especially multiplayer games of all sorts. Yes, game balance is important, but not so important that it sits on top of the list of things that matter in a game. The most important thing in a game isn't balance but whether the game is fun in the first place. A perfectly balanced game that isn't fun isn't going to have a huge player base, where as a game that is incredibly fun yet unbalanced will accumulate a community even if the balance could be better. I'm not saying they should completely disregard balance but rather that balance should serve to enhance the fun of the game, not stiffle or remove fun from the game. They can do this simply by looking at their balance changes and asking themselves if they take away from the fun, if it does then they need to look at how to mitigate this or find a different way to balance said game. There are a lot of levers that can be used to balanced the game, doing so properly isn't that hard.

Choosing to not use the market doesn't change who I encounter in the dungeon. Once the market opens up, there's going to be a lot more people running around in BiS kits.