I disagree. It's entirely about the paper zombie issue. We can't level down characters, so some are disadvantaged in GA.
A whale could invest in literally only meta characters and only have them at G12 with 0 purple characters. Say his GP equals 3mil. He's been playing so much that he has enough materials to go to 4mil or so but doesn't use those materials.
I'm just throwing arbitrary numbers around to prove a point but GP has never been an indicator of roster usefulness. Which is I think the OP is making light of. The paper zombie was a strategy to make zombie more useful by NOT using resources on her. They changed that because they wanted players to use their resources for characters to be useful. But in GA, useful only extends to about G11... Making the G10 and below roster almost useless.
Yes the whale I proposed earlier is strategically using his resources for elite characters only which gives him an advantage, but the dev comment that makes this post make sense is "Players don't have the ability to level down a character". Because someone invests in their roster, they are disadvantaged. That is the point.
