People have been whining and crying about how dom is expensive since the dawn of the site. They used to complain that raffles were bad because they made the other flights feel entitled to profit off of dom. And hoo boy, you should have seen the fit people threw when public buys/fast lanes were invented.

That's why the hateboner for mercs is stupid: because they've never been some kind of aberration from how dom works. They simply happen to have developed later than most other dom strategies, and are thus the most popular one to shit on. If mercing had somehow never happened, I guarantee something else would have come along and disillusioned you instead.