Your example only further supports my reasoning. The fact that the so call whale already with a week old account consisting of an equal/similar amount of units than the free player who has been playing for who knows how long just goes to show you how much of an advantage that paying players can catch up at...

And a perfect example of this is myself. I have been playing for less than 2 months and my helper squad has 108k TP (in fact you can say it's only been a month since I have barely bothered to level them the past 1~2 weeks). I've seen several users on here who have played far longer than me that aren't even there yet.

Any kind of advantage one has from paying, no matter how small is still an advantage.