People need to chill down. It's a sandbox game. Let people play it how they want.
Or they could play the way it was intended to.
Let's take Minecraft as an example.
The goal is to build up your item tiers by mining, but that's pretty useless if you already have diamond EVERYTHING.
Oh and a brick fortress armoured with obsidian and you mine with 64 stacks on TNT.
That's like playing a MMO where Vendors sell all the best things for 1 copper, along with x2000 EXP rates.