Falling further and further behind

Whether you like it or not, that is the nature of the development of the game, you want to get good characters, you work on worse ones, it's a ladder, otherwise by now someone could join and farm CLS as their first character. Raid Han has been made more available over the years slightly, as I suspect other raid characters might be, but event characters are accessed through events, that is the purpose of them. They are F2P accessible through time farming, not time waiting for them to be given to you. And that is as someone who is free to play.