The new rebuttal to pay to win claims is that the game is pay to fund and therefore cannot be pay to win....
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/boml12 Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/boml12/pay_to_win/
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/bomot9 Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/bomot9/question_about_the_whole_p2w_discussion/
Pay-to-win is literally CI¬G's entire business model.
I have no idea why any Commando, old or new, hasn't worked that out after about, oh, 2 minutes of looking at the sales page.