Okay hear me out here.

Yakno when a game comes out and it’s pay-to-win, so people get upset and the devs are like “woah we’ll patch it out it’s okay”.

So the patch comes, but the whales who bought all the P2W stuff early on get to keep it, while most of the P2W items are now currently unavailable. Additionally, the players who got stomped on by the P2W players prior to the patch get nothing to help them catch up.

And of course, crucially, the entire game was designed around P2W, so there’s still all sorts of mechanics in place that favor the P2W players. To actually fix the game would require significant rework of many of those systems.

And of course, the devs are always looking for ways to sneak microtransactions back into the game.