Each of us has their own opinion of this game, and our own personal and moronic reason for staying here.
When I started in 2004-5, I drank too much Southern Comfort while playing. Down the tubes went thousands of dollars.
Then, I actually saw a chance to come out ahead in this on-line casino. Nope - after $10,000 more it didn't work.
Then, I just realized I'm bored, like talking to friends from all over the world and have nothing better to do, so I stayed, but my play time is 1/100th of what it used to be.
Sure, there's a few (maybe a dozen) players who have so many skills, such great armor, weapons and other toys that it's damn near impossible for them to NOT win every contest - and there's a few who have an unlimited bankroll to sink into crafting that it "seems" that they're hoffing daily.
The reality is that MA couldn't care less what we think, what we say, who comes and who goes. The strange thing about gambling is that no matter if you KNOW the odds are stacked against you, the true gambler will keep putting coins in the slot machine because (as we all know), "it's gonna hit someday".
No matter how bad EU sucks for most of us, we'll keep stuffing coins in it's slot. It's human nature.
As for the Q & A sessions MA granted us, here's my take of all of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fub8PsNxBqI