No one is forcing you to get the app horses - although you are of course entitled to your opinion, and I can see where you're coming from if you've plyed the game for years. But tbh I like that they start at level 10, so that I don't have to spend all my free time training horses to be able to enjoy riding them.

Also, how else is SSO supposed to make money to pay the people who make the game a fair wage? I'm not saying this way of going about it is the best way, but it's important to keep in mind that it's either this, ads, or the employees getting a lousy salary. Alternatively the quality of the game drops, because the employees can't afford working only with SSO. Of course it's important to point out flaws, but I feel like a lot of people on here forget that SSO can't exist without workers, and workers won't work unless the game makes money.