As an og player, im frustrated

Small rant: I used to play back in like 2016 when it first came out I believe. Quit in like 2019 I think and barely started playing again earlier this year, sent into a whirlwind with all the new stuff that has been added that I missed out on, and I’ve attempted to try to get behind this paywall so I’ve bought a few super boxes to try to trade up to get things I’ve actually wanted, along with trying to trade things I THOUGHT were good but I guess has lost value in the recent years, and its just so disheartening trying to enjoy collecting and participating in getting the cool new things when its impossible to trade up because either everything is overpriced in value or people are just suuuuuper picky with their items and I really don’t want to have to pay anymore money to get all the cute and cool releases. Like everything thats cool and unique is behind a paywall, and people who trade stuff overprice the heck out of it making the in game market for items impossible for people who don’t wanna spend money. Like nutcrackers used to be good enough for a forest with afew adds. Now im like so lost on the values of everything.

TLDR; Ajpw isn’t like what it used to be and its frustrating that you pretty much have to spend real money for almost everything nowadays