Well, this is what the commercialization and the "hunt" for players did to gaming overall.
More and more soft souls that have several dollars, that the companies want to extract, entered the gaming world and in order to profit the companies dumbed down everything to "click here and enter end game" approach. Almost all games do that nowadays and this made the "new wave" of gamers whatever they are now in terms of goals and incentive.
I know gaming is a form of escapism from the RL, but I still can't believe ppl think that they deserve something, just because...
Complaining about price of mats and the "NEED" to actually play several hours to gear your character with ENDGAME gear, that you will never touch from now on is indeed mind boggling... I guess OP or the other anathematizing repliers never played BDO or haven't tried Lost Ark yet...
To have a problem with the cost of things in a game where you literally need 5 hours tops(assuming you get 30g/h, which is not optimal) to gear your character and never touch that gear again is like drowning little kittens in a bottle cap.
If you care that much and dive deep into the cost of the mentioned gear, why didn't you invest that time in researching how to make sick amount of gold and never be bothered again about such minor topics? Oh, wait... Its research and research is time, which equals money, which equals ingame gold, thus making achieving something actually a net negative experience... Duh...
I know, I know - now OP will mention the "new players"... Which is totally irrelevant. Do you think absolutely new player care about gear, stats and cost? No. They are clueless lambs and by the time they start to actually think about raid gear(viper's), they will have mats and gold for at least 4 sets if they used the "Deposit all" button several times.
Finally, yes - people here gave very helpful advices about alternative gear and such, but the people complaining about a 30g cost then complained about a 30 minutes "farm"(this is embarrassing even to type). I mean... C'mon.