The point of the damage cap?

Your point is pretty hypocritical. You're complaining that the hackers took away the cost of the reward (pot) by duplicating it, and giving it to everyone. Then you go on to complain that Nexon cleaning up makes the items more limited, and it's harder to replicate them? As you already said, "potential has a high reward with a high cost". So if the duped items are more limited, in your earlier perspective, that would be a good thing as everyone's paying loads for that type of gear. But then you somehow implied that having these items be "limited" is a bad thing, as it's "harder to replicate them". Well, obviously. You'll actually have to cube it yourself now, which means you'll pay at least around 5-6x more than the duped cost. And it's not "harder to replicate" when Nexon created those new cubes that increase the chance of making more than 1 Legendary line on a Legendary equip, rather than having 1 Legendary Line with 2 Unique lines.

You're reading it incorrectly, by having duping in the first place, fixing it actually escalates the problem even more if they don't clean it up properly. Aka leftovers. Nexon intended a high cost for those equip's that are presently on the market, instead hackers made it a standard.

The point about duping reducing Nexon's profits has always been a moot point. Yes, the MTS did concentrate thousands of dollars of NX into the hands of the dupers, and let them have items for far less than their legitimate cost. But it also did increase the average standard for damage, which is another reason why people actually started buying 38 atk VSS and 301 cravens. My point is, had duping not been there, would the money "lost" from people buying duped equips and not buying their CS equivalents, actually have been spent? If the damage standard wasn't raised that much for the norm, because everyone has the same equips, would there be that much demand to upgrade equips? My thinking is no, Nexon actually made more profit off of everyone buying duped gear, than removing them from the get-go, which is why they stalled on their actions against them until market saturation came into play.

Please quote/bold where I said anything about profits? I hear all this talking but nothing substantial is coming out of it besides point's you're making up.