Why wouldnt they just wipe items/currency (refunding pw rm zen purchases) and dish out level-scaled green item kits. The big reason why most people who dont want a wipe don't want it is so they dont have to go thru the level grind again. I really dont want to have to do that again, even tho I kinda enjoyed it. But I agree…
For me personally, I can accept that some people are goign to be ahead of me no matter what. I'd rather just avoid having the last however many hours of my game time erased. I had taken a day off work to enjoy the game and relax a bit, it would be a slap in the face to have it 'rolled back' :(.