Is it a good idea for Nexon to make a pre-BB server? Would you care?

I briefly skimmed through this thread so if this has been posted already then apologies, but I was under the impression the RED patch was helping toward making the gap btwn NX-heavy players and non NX-heavy players smaller? Did they make it difficult to create cubes through Blacksmithing? Or is it managable enough to where at least the potential aspect of the game won't be that awful if you don't throw money into NX?

Obviously I know there is the social aspect of the game that has been declining like others have been mentioning in this thread (PQs, multi-party bosses, etc.), but I am not entirely sure what to comment on that on how to fix it.

The Blacksmithing cubes are reportedly very hard to create.