I've gotta disagree with you.

You've gone a decade without spending money, and because of that, you've had a decade to accumulate and slowly spend dilithium and other resources.

If you start today, how long would it take you to catch up to yourself? Think about the absolute wall of content that needs to be bought with dilithium immediately, as opposed to it being released a bit at a time.

Also, the DilX being fucked, means the majority of the Zen you bought was probably significantly cheaper. Even getting character slots for a new account might take a few months given the DilX backlog and 8k dil limit.

Even basic things we take for granted like EC are monsterously hard to obtain for new players who are f2p. The EC inflation means the only real way to obtain meaningful amounts of EC is by turning Dil into EC. You can't get EC via normal ganeplay because the replicator costs are abysmally low.

And also, the quanity of one-off freebies you got for participating in limited events that will NEVER rerun because they show up in mudds for absolutely asinine costs.