Legitimacy when it comes to leeching?

Botting: Yes.
Regular old grinding: No.

I do think it should be a heck of a lot more expensive, though.

It's your own money...plus, when you do reach a high level, you'll probably be too lazy and quit.

My take on leeching is, the money u use to leech is ur hard-earned mesos unless u gached or something. I leeched from 90 to 100 before regular training... And i used the mesos i earned. So what i feel is that u put effort into getting ur mesos. It's just like transferring it into EXP.

Maple's gonna become Wall Street soon.

It already is...