P2W is real. and is occurring, I am a bedrock player so I don't know if you have the same problems on Java servers, but, over here on bedrock, people don't get banned if they are fly hacking or what, they get banned if they don't have a rank. Now, not all people who don't have ranks get banned, but what I am saying is that if you buy a rank, you get an instant anti-ban "get out of jail free" card, where you won't get banned. I have proof. I have reported more then a dozen guys, all of which had ranks. All got DENIED! The first non-ranked person I reported got banned.
At first, I thought this was proof enough, no, I found much more and worst proof. Here is the report profile of the banned player: (2 links to evidence)
https://streamable.com/gsebml &
https://streamable.com/6zpfyo
And here is all video evidence of them "hacking":
https://streamable.com/0ws9sw
https://streamable.com/nhtdyb
https://streamable.com/qr02td
https://streamable.com/ptcd7t
https://streamable.com/jb5dct
https://streamable.com/8rz49j
https://streamable.com/k5ngx5
You might recognize that name my fellow bedrock players. Yep. This player is top 20 worldwide for solo egg wars, the staff team should have done their research on him because a top 20 player never would have gotten there if he was cheating for the 1900+ wins he had obtained. And with this game's active player base on both versions, the chances of him being an actual hacker is near impossible/ very unlikely. If you want to share with me your point of view, feel free to private message me(check out signature) or ask me for the video proof of all dozen other reports(just incase the staff team reads this, I have them saved to 'cloud storage').