No it's not, the community is just paying for it collectively! The players deserve a game that's better because they're still paying for it as a group instead of as individuals! Stop individualising yourselves so much that you can't even critique a product anymore!
I don't even really care if it's whales or not in a lot of cases. I actually think the inherent anti-whale thing is driving individualism and causing players to fight among themselves. If they united with the whales they'd have a stronger voice as one community.
A lot of these people drawing the distinction between the whales and themselves are paying players anyway. It's a tool of division. Splitting the playerbase into fighting among themselves instead of directing their criticisms and desires in a united way towards the developers. A lot of it reminds me of the identity-based infighting in the working class and how it divides them up into bickering among themselves instead of directing their, ahem... criticisms... at the bourgeoisie. It's not 1:1 but many of the behaviours are similar just in a consumerist space.
plus a lot of so-called "whales" are just people with average or below average incomes who are vulnerable to the predatory practices these free-to-play game companies spend immense time and resources to develop
the idea that they are all rich people is largely a myth
i'm not talking about whales as a player, i'm talking about whales from the perspective of the company making it free to play, i think f2p is inherently predatory so i don't play them