Well that’s where you and me disagree, it not bad I love that we have different expectations for MMOs, my posture comes from the time invested vs. fun factor, let’s say you want to have a handicap vs. people that don’t do what they need to do to progress the way they should progress.
Aka to Raid you need to do Hard mode, then Raid T1 then Raid T2, if you want to PvP, start from scratch go PvP get your *** kicked for a couple of months and get your PvP gear, and then now we are in equal ground, because at the end of the day that gap you want will disappear slower of faster but it will disappear.
The only gap in PvP that cannot be removed is skill, how fast you are how good you are using your keybinds, how well you judge any situation.
For me MMO or not, PvP is about Player vs. Player who is better not who has started sooner, who played the longer, etc is not a big factor, its about skill. You are or aren’t better that the other team or player. Of course if you have played longer you have a natural the handicap of experience.
Now the difference about you and me is I don’t want to alienate a chunk of the player base just because, I have the need to feel superior for a couple of months. As a core PvPer I love proving that I'm a good player and I don’t feel the need to have and advantage to any player because I spend most of my play time PvPing, my experience is the only advantage I need.
But it’s good we have different points of view.