Slowly becoming pay to win

Suggesting a build is only as good as the player controlling him is just not true. It's like arguing nature vs nurture and suggesting an athlete is only as good as his coaches allow for him to be. I promise a 6'5, 4.2 40, Beast of an athlete with avg coaching will often out perform a 5'2 kid with 0 athleticism and the best coaches in the world. Now we all know both come into play, and it's true that player ability and skills are more important than the build, I'll concede that much.. but if we are playing chess and I pay for a few extra pieces.. it's an advantage, you are paying to be better not a guaranteed win by any means, but maybe Jean gets you 1 more win every 5-10 games.. that's p2w.. and it begins a very slippery slope. Where do we go from here? Are we going to expect even better builds in the future? Saying these advantages are only advantages of the player takes advantage of them seems like an excuse to suggest p2w in any game doesn't exist. If I pay and get a shark card in GTA and buy a jet to take out my friends but crash it into a building then p2w isn't in the game because the character in the game is only as good as the player using him. We all know having a jet would be a huge advantage, of course it doesn't BUY you the win but it is "pay to win" easier. If i was able to play someone equal to me in every way and they had Jean and I made a custom build, they are going to beat me more often. The gane of hockey is random, bad bounces happen.. the build isn't so good that it can't be stopped but we can't act like this is good for the game. It puts money in EA pockets but it's bad for the game. Remind me again YOUR words for why we go X-factors innthis game? Something about players feeling/ behaving differently was it? Now you make a build that is just better than what anyone can make so people buy it and choose that and we get rid of player creativity, and differentiation. I gotta ask how this makes sense? What is the long term plan here? Is WoC just gonna be a money grab now? At this point if we're gonna do that just go 2k route.. make us pay for attribute points (or earn them) and build out our guy.. at least we will have custom builds rather than pay for pre-made one's.