Gollux

While I agree the difficulty system is just fine, the pot cooldown and overall not being able to work when fighting a body part is annoying they need to fix that. As for the funding that is debatable considering the items that'd make the most profit can only be gotten by killing hard/hell mode. Hard mode is possible, but hell mode is impossible not only that but the 'well-funded' or 'Elite' maplers will NOT pay for the items when they can get them themselves by killing Gollux. So really the only good level of funding is selling the scrolls since Nexon f'cked up the shop and made all the items one-time only buys.

But that has always been the case.
Back when the best money came from running Zakum, HT, and CWKPQ, you had to be strong enough to begin with to fight them.
It's true that two or three unfunded characters could fill for one superfunded "pro", but squad organizers preferred the "pro" anyway because he was HP washed and would survive where all three unfundeds would get wiped, and because appling him was seen as cheaper than giving three people apples.

It's true that the power gap has become absurd, where it takes 100 unfunded to deliver the DPS of one superfunded, but the principle that the most lucrative rewards fall to the people who are already rich has always been so.