he's an insecure tool trying to validate his achievement, obviously anyone competing for ladder will buy gear in some way or another
but brother this has almost no effect on your d2 experience, and even less so on your life. If it upsets you in any way it is time for a little introspection
Agree to an extent, but unfortunately this guy does have an effect on the d2 experience overall, because for some reason Blizzard thinks 'content creators' and cesspools like Reddit represent the average person playing the game, when they're a minority of a minority. And they don't know how to design good games anymore because they're all talent-less DEI hires, so they take game design advice from randos and online 'surveys'. Not a good sign.