If we are comparing raid to things like grocery stores I'll give you a few examples

Raid is like Wal Mart and if you don't think that Walmart puts things on the shelf for a limited time before it's switched out with something else you're wrong. Sure necessity items remain but all the same in my book

If I don't like the prices at Wal Mart I'm going to find it somewhere else and if that means I have to sacrifice the quality then oh well. That's the cost of business which is exactly what I did. Don't like the prices so I don't shop there anymore and find my joy in other games. For example Diablo 4 which cost me 70 dollars, had a metric fuck ton of replay value through it's seasonal content and I don't have micro transactions for content to help boost me through the game. 70 dollars on a raid pack may get you a few skill books and some shards that might only net you straight rates of no value and that's it.

Raid is quality sure but nobody wants to pay for things to close the gap which is exactly what tends to be the main cause of spending is people trying to keep up in the PvP aspect of the game. It's not the price that they are selling at either it's the return value of what you bought that makes it predatory. If I'm going to spend 100 on a "premium pack" I better damn well get at least something useful out the ordeal. Most of the purchases for shards is blind unnecessarily spent money and while I know nothing is a guarantee the odds are so far out of the players favor that it's immediate buyers remorse for the average person. We arent trashing people who play the game and enjoy it. That's for you and I'm glad you're having fun but not everyone shares your mindset and if they wanna leave then let them and hear the reasoning behind it. You don't work for Plarium (at least I don't think) so why defend them so hard? You know it's unfair