I have played Eve Online so many hours, and it’s a bad game. Don’t do it. you will spend hundreds of hours dreaming about the cool thing you’ll do later, but for 99% of players the cool thing will never happen. You will be part of the one percent’s cool thing.
Do you have a similar game?
It was certainly somewhat P2W since the beginning but it wasn’t until Clan Wars 2 that it felt fully P2W for me. Before that you only needed one maxed deck which didn’t take that long. Then came lvl14, then champions and lvl 15. I haven’t financially supported the game in years but someone must be giving them money and reinforcing these awful decisions.