> Both current and blockchain solutions are pay to win in the exact same ways
They don't.
> The blockchain solution solves other problems.
It doesn't. As in there are no problems blockchain solves, period, and it makes most existing problems worse.
> I'm not sure what your criticism of this even is
You want to normalise and incentivise the behaviour. And pretending that by simply appending "blockchain" to it it is okay.
