Has Perfect World made it impossible for new players to start playing?

So I've played Perfect World International since a little over a year after it's full release, and I can honestly say the game has gone through a lot of pretty heavy changes. While I don't remember much of how it was end-game at the beginning of my playing, when Tideborn was released I really began to understand how things had changed in PWI. I've played a Blademaster for about 80% of my game time, and thus have had quite an interesting relationship with coin making in-game.

Now the bulk of what I'm going to be saying is based off of my own experiences and is probably wildly different from a lot of other folks for a number of reasons: I have put money into this game, but not enough to be super well geared. I have often given gifts or coin to friends/Factionmates for no return because that's just who I am and what I enjoy. That being said, I really worry about how this game has gone in terms of making coin outside of real money transactions. So briefly I'd like to talk about some of the ways I can recall myself or others making money; and how those ways have slowly disappeared over time. And hopefully I can maybe get some answers as to why they have stayed gone.

1) Non-epic crafting mats: I think most of the playerbase (at least since the time I started playing) has at one time or another gathered crafting mats for the sole purpose of selling them for coin to catshops. I recall quite vividly taking my level 31 psychic out to Orchid Temple (On Dreamweaver for a long time OT was the pk spot), asking for a cleric to give me buffs, and then killing the wolves just outside the tele area for rough fur, then selling it to catshops by the blacksmith in archo for an ok bit of coin (for my level at least). However, with the cash shop leveling items, crafting mats aren't really worth anything anymore besides Apoth mats for high level apothecary items; and those aren't readily available should someone be just starting out.

2) DQ mats: Well just as with Crafting mats, DQ items were a newer players dream if you weren't used to seeing a lot of coins. "Oh wow these sell for 1k coins each? That's amazing!" Or something to that effect was my reaction at least. And towards the later levels of the game, you could very easily farm them in certain areas over and over, getting coin at a fairly steady rate. I can't recall the name of it, but I remember hearing about squads that would go and farm together before genies came out, just to get DQs to sell. And while it certainly wasn't a very fast way to make coin, it was accessible to the entire playerbase from the get go. Sure certain classes couldn't do it as easily as others, but I'd chalk that up to classes having different roles. But sadly not too long ago they removed the price off of DQ items and instead turned them into point farming mats to get items from a store on the PWI website. Now I'm not sure if it's still there, but I know that when they added the "bot" feature to the game that was quickly abused to farm DQ while afk, so I don't exactly blame them but I wish it didn't have to go that way.

3) Epic-crafting mats: Once you got past lvl 60, Twilight Temple became open to you as a crafting area. Suddenly a whole new set of gear and weapons were ready to be made, and with it came the materials that made them. Now for a few years, TT gear remained supreme as the best gear you could get, both because rank gear was extremely hard to get, and because there were lots of people farming it as the end-game. I remember my faction running me through TT 1-1 to get my first set of green axes and being amazed at them. And TT has remained a go-to method of coin making ever since then, but recently it seems to have died in a big way. The War Supply crate giving away free full TT99 gear probably has something to do with that I imagine. But even without that, I think the first big problems came from having assassins being able to stealth through the entire dungeon solo with ease, and then expanded from there with r9 gear and such.

4) Frostcovered City (FF/FC): Once a materials dungeon, Perfect World decided that it would be better off as a leveling area that sometimes dropped gear. Rather silly if you ask me, but hey it's their game. So the advent of FC runs for sale dawned on us. Usually done by 2 people or 1 aps class, this was an interesting idea that quickly turned sour because it also brought with it loads of Hyper Babies that knew nothing about their class and just bought everything they could with gold. And while I can't say it made the game better necessarily, taking it away hurt worse because suddenly the easiest way to get through an already exhausting grind to 100 suddenly became much longer.

5) Jolly Old Jones: A newer addition to the list of ways to make coins, this was added while I was taking a break from the game so I'm honestly not sure if PWI said anything specific about it's intentions, but JoJ quickly became an altoholics best friend as people with loads of alts just did their JoJ dailies and transferred the money to their mains. The problem is that this isn't a great mechanic for a new player. They may quickly figure out JoJ is an "easy" way to make money, but that then requires you to level another toon which takes a lot of time and effort to do. Plus gearing that toon adds to the expenses and just makes it a mess.

6) Flowsilver Palace: FSP is the second to last method of coin making in-game I'll talk about, and from what I've been told it is also slowly dying. An option only available for those nearing end-game, the coins from it pose an interesting problem since they are both an effective way to get cards, and a way to make money. I'm honestly not very experienced with selling them so I'll say it's not a bad addition, it shares the problem with JoJ of needing a lot of alts to be effective (and requires a lot more gear).

7) Merchanting: The most common method I hear about to get lots of coin nowadays is merchanting. Personally I'm horrible at reading what the markets like and have never been successful at it, but I understand that those who are profit from it greatly. What I don't understand is why merchanting has essentially become the only way to get coin consistently if you don't have alts. If you don't have several alts to do JoJ or FSP with, merchanting is your only hope of getting coin for the pricier items.

From the list I just made, numbers 1,2,4,and possibly 6 are either completely gone or mostly gone. And there's a big problem with the first two being there, they're the only ones a completely new player can really use. TT is only effective for making money at 3-3 and that requires a lot of gear and the ability to aps with BP or have a squad, not an easy task for a new player. FC required an APS or Squad as well in it's hay day, and FSP requires gear nowadays. JoJ takes a load of alts to be worth it, and merchanting is primarily for players with a lot of experience in the market and a good starting point of coin to work with. If I joined the game, fresh and never having any experience, the amount of coin required to get a good amount of gear would be staggering. And being told that the only options require gear, money, or alts would not help that in the slightest.

I truly don't understand why, even with the fairly decent steps that have been made in the last year or so, that PWI continues to make it nearly impossible for anyone new to play this game. 60-75% of all the announcements are cash shop based, and only offer some help to a newer player. But for a Free to Play game, there's not a whole lot of options to actually play for free! Anyways I'm curious of thoughts on what I've said and corrections for anything I've gotten wrong.