Indeed. They should introduce reaper xp pots for this. Among other things
It's more than that. It takes most people who have a normal schedule years upon years of catch up just to get halfway to where the Methuselahs and 8/7 players are.
No game should have that kind of reach. It's morally bankrupt to create a product in which some people can lap the crowd a dozen times with no reset ever occurring.
I mean if you enjoy the game and want to play it non-stop for years that's great. You just shouldn't get any particular advantage over time from doing that. Enjoyment of play is a very different beast than wanting power that the average person can never reach.
I remember when WoW brought out the PvP gear based on the battlegrounds and honor gain. Half the people in my guild, decked out in raid gear that at the time took many months to flesh out were outraged. In one fell swoop their permanent advantage over the people who played less and were unable to raid continuously disappeared.
17 years later WoW still has millions of players playing the game.
I wonder why...