Clearly you've not been playing rohan long enough yet. There will always be reasons to grind. If you don't, you won't have maxed items or lvl, or title or what not. It's just how Rohan is managed. you wanna do that by hand, be my guest. I've been around long enough to know that this transcendence system is gonna be a big deal once you reach maximum lvl, you're gonna need to do a ****load of grinding to up your stats.
Oh and if someone is unemployed and thus has more time to play ''he should be stronger than someone who doesn't have that time''. Let me get this through your thick skull, the top geared players are and will be people who want and can pump tonns of $ into this game, which, unless you win the lottery, requires a job lmfao.
1. People are already botting without HK's, they've done so at ORIGIN since they day it opened
2. Games evolve, most MMORPG's have some kind of intrinsic botting system, this prevents illigal botting. Beside that, most people simply don't want to grind by hand for ages anymore they want fairly fast action (PVP). I'm not gonna hold a speech about how the attention span of people drastically changed over the years due to the increase in technology (I mean babys play with ipads now instead of toys).....It's simple grinding endlessly by hand is a thing of the past, newcomers won't accept it and move to a fast phase game.
3. You of all people should know that grinding = income for PWI, thus they'll always come up with something new that requires you to grind to stay on the top. Look at Jainus, we're at the point that you first need to get 115+50 then you need to farm 120k trans fragments for your weapon and 2x title and after that you need to farm 100 proofs. There's maybe 1 or 2 people on the whole server who got the max title and that's because they bought half of the proofs from others.