As the Cash Shop gets worse, more players may leave, less population has this chance to make more people leave or take a break, when even less people are around there would be less contest, sooner or later cashers wont have much to contest about, except fighting other cashers. Which itself would escalate rather quickly.
So yes, at the present, money talks.
But if you want your game to be consistent and last as long as possible, you will have to take care of all your players.
People can sit and laugh “Third world kids” “poor people” etc, but people has to realize, if there are only cashers left, youd get a really small population to play with.
So i really hope Tos stops focusing on Cash Shop, kTest already has new maid costumes, and actaully start focusing more on the game again, We already got more leticia cubes incoming, already.