This is WoW. The term “catch up” simply means getting power faster.
Ilvl is still in there regardless how you feel.
To accept this, is to accept the 535 p2w idea.
…That’s pretty much what Pay to Win ultimately means a lot of the time. Heck, some would go to call it “Time savers”. Side eyes ubisoft
To focus on the literal definition of it, is missing the point on why this phrase came to be in the first place.
By the comment you’ve given me then and the comment you’re giving me now telling me WoW isn’t ,i doubt you genuinely think Diablo Immoral is p2w to begin with.
It just seems like an overly complex way of defending WoW but shunning others for doing the same thing by moving goalposts around with “What advantages you’re gaining” imo.
It’s perfectly fine to say “WoW has MTX that allow you to gain certain advantages”.