We’d have to agree to disagree then. This is a currency and if it was going to be locked behind qualifying by logging on to a main with the essences unlocked it would have been very easy to just say so and would have avoided a lot of the backlash that is being received.
Obviously not all, as there are people that left the game because of the essence system and this does nothing to encourage them to come back, but it would have been one very easy thing to have communicated upfront to players.