Then you ain't seen shyt
Most Gachas won't even let you play without a Resin-equivalent tax. Let alone grind. Anyone saying you can't do anything without that is straight up ignoring the fact that the other 2/3s of resources you require in the game got nothing to do with it. And if you're talking Gachas on pulls then a character in this game is a hell of a lot more bang for the buck than a .jpg of a stat sheet like other games. You talking about it being the worse when other games will make you use a resin equivalent to get gear, to craft/upgrade it further, and then tell you it takes 48 hours to finish while asking you to pull the credit out again. Fire Emblem wouldn't even let you use the PVP half of its game without paying the tax. Ace Combat Infinity limited you to 3 missions every 3 hours.
The last Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed games both literally advertised microtransactions as "Time Savers". If anything, this game left money on the table by not dropping a costume or accessory shop feature day one. Even the pulls aren't anywhere close to the bottom tier because they throw you usable resources and ways to just exchange for what you need.
You talking out your ass for what
to co-sign people that want to bring Real Money Auction House/Diablo 3 energy to a PvE game that you're encouraged to play at your own pace at every turn? Do better breh