Here's the part you missed: Sometimes players with well-established accounts will create a new character. Once that character reaches level cap (let's call it adulthood), max level gear can be withdrawn from the bank and the character is in an endgame raid! Meanwhile, a new person comes along and creates a character without the benefit of a loaded vault. They reach level cap, and are busting their ass to try to get the gear just to enter this endgame raid. They're getting better gear, but the threshold for raid participation keeps shifting. "Must be 315 light, 316, 317, 318...Must have Black Spindle to raid, must have raid gear to join Black Spindle group" They're no better or worse of a player as the first person, they just don't have the same resources. And it's hard to get resources without already having resources. So, if you're the kind of person that realizes some people just need a bit of help, maybe you're a Sanders guy. If you're the kind of person that believes it's every guardian for themselves, maybe you're a Rand guy. And if you're the kind of person that says "GIT GUD -blam!-SCRUB", you might be a Trump guy.