It was bad but most of the rohan forumers have selection bias and think that it was balanced without considering how many bad players there were when rohan started.
Only thing i will admit is that YNK/Playwith interactive was a much better company during these times. Pvp balance was just as imbalanced as it was now money would still get you much further than those free players with "mad skillz yo".
Everybody wants to act like all those glorified players of the past were some free to play min-max skill gods but most of them had 2 to 6 bot alts farming all day.