SG fundamentally broken & unfun on this server

New player on this server, used to play on MCSG/Badlion 3+ years ago when there were actual SG servers (excluding the Hive), and I just wanted to ask, why is it pretty much p2w on here? I assume I'm running into p2w players who have fully enchanted iron gear with diamond helmets in the few games I've played. I've lost just due to them stat-checking me in fights I otherwise should have won. I assume they get the gear from the purchasable T3 spawn in chest for 5k credits. I hope I'm wrong that I'm just not doing a proper route, but the only chests I've ever encountered playing on the SG are T2 with iron gear maximum and it always confuses me as to why people have fully enchanted gear at DM (and diamond gear when they spawn at corn). If this is just because of p2w ranks, that's just unfortunate because this is so far the only populous SG server that I've found with the old good MCSG maps. T3 chests you can pay for imo completely negates the fun of survival games and removes a lot of the skill factor.