yeah, that was the initial idea of shiftrox too i think, but the expensive stuff happens in every game too, look splinterlands for example, you have the 0,01$ cards, and the 1000$ ones, the beauty of it is having a balance.
I wanted to point out too, all games have costs, servers, time invested, chatgpt, and it has to be profitable, otherwise it will eventually close down. It's important, as much as we don't like it, to remember that big spenders is what drives these games for the rest of us.