You can answer your question pretty much yourself without not even being properly honest with the facts you bring on the table as usually you do.
By telling me that it requires time investment, you're now pointing to the gaining accessibilty which gets drastically nerfed every single patch. For which again I really have my doubts that you've ever invested the time yourself. If investing time was a common terminology in bg then I wouldn't have been complaining today since 3 years of farming didn't really made me reach a good pvp gear atleast for me and I am playing the game probably longer than many others who are still around. Also, as you know the players have to get a decent pve gear in order to be able farm the pvp items as well. Yet there are many f2p players that struggles to reach the standards and many threads have been made already which concerns the grinding in this game. So, what's the time investment you're mentioning that basically has no association? Right now I am very eager to see a ranked player that never really had a transaction. Unless I get to see this proof from someone then and only then I will change my opinion. But as an old and known player in the community I've never saw it.