Might as well wait until after the trinity update. Would be silly to quit before the first major update in Rohan since the giants were introduced.
That is the progression. No game ever starts off doing this stuff.
The game always comes out and it is all decorative and minor experience enhancements - things that really don/t change the balance of the game. Then come the minor cash shop power-ups that get more and more potent as time goes on. Finally you start seeing things like 'instant endgame level' tickets, high powered enhancement items and weapons are being sold in the cash shop.
About the only f2p game that I haven't seen go that way is Aion. But give them time. They have only been f2p for a couple years. Tera is starting down that path now with its instant endgame tickets. Rohan has been there for a couple years now and is only getting worse as the game owners get more and more desperate to squeeze every last dollar out of its players.
As are we all.