> Both current and blockchain solutions are pay to win in the exact same ways
They don't.
> The blockchain solution solves other problems.
It doesn't. As in there are no problems blockchain solves, period, and it makes most existing problems worse.
> I'm not sure what your criticism of this even is
You want to normalise and incentivise the behaviour. And pretending that by simply appending "blockchain" to it it is okay.
If we agree that there's no known solution for the "pay to win" part, I'm not sure what your criticism of this even is?