Why do we play Maplestory?

We've been talking a lot about how poorly the F2P model is executed in MapleStory.
Can we name a MMORPG who acutally do it right?
Don't get me wrong I've quitted maple for like 4 years now, but I can't actually name a single F2P that doesn't give a huuge advantage to the players that spend money on it.
Right now I've been playing Aura Kingdom which is nice and all there's even a some sort of cash shop which you can buy things with a currency within the game but it's hella slow to get money for that shop.
Some people been telling me this game is P2W as pineapple but as of now I haven't felt any kind of disadvantge over other users even at PVP.
I'm sure I'll get to that point because you can't LITERALLY enhace your weapons past +15 without spending cash.