If you did just play the game 'normally' then you wouldn't control anything. You buy characters, you get other people to level for you, there's absolutely no way you can call that 'playing normally' by any stretch of the imagination. You make up your own moral rules, and by that I mean you win by whatever means are necessary. I'd rather be last and stick to being a good person than live by your twisted style.
Next you'll come along with your army of clowns to claim I'm this and that and 'everyone' hates me. The truth is, there is a segment of the player base who dislike me, and the reason for that is that bullies don't know what to do when someone stands up to them so they resort to even less moral tactics to try to make themselves look superior. Most people in your very small and very pathetic bubble hate me, so you think that's the whole world view, because you're blind to that happens in 99% of the world.
Bottom line is, you and your friends do not play the game with good morals. You play to feed your egos. It's embarrassing and it's cringe and I stand by my statement that if you didn't do that, the server would be busier and more enjoyable for everyone, except you. But that's your fault and nobody else's.