It is how it is, founders gave them extra stuff to start an amazing game, they gave huge amounts of money for a game that was in beta back when.
Some of them have been waiting for 10 years, I'll be one of them in 2 weeks, so it's a good thing that they "reward" first-hour players first, DE can monitor things and founder can be the firsts to use the system, looks like a good bargain to me.
It's here, it's a bit bugged, but it's here, once the clan thingy is fixed it should come back and pretty much everybody will be good by the end of the year, except maybe some people that started very late compared to others, but we came down from years of waiting to days / weeks for some.