I stared at this for a long time wondering how to correctly answer it, because I feel my question about the $300 pre-order sparked this, and after hours of pondering I've found my reason. Buying sneakers has become the new age politics. Obtaining kicks is all in who you know and how much money you can throw around. Without at least one of the two, your destined to fail, at not only highly hyped limited releases, but a great amount of hyped general releases. In politics, name one person who has won an election, without knowing some "higher ups", taking some "unaccounted donations", who has never attacked the opponent's integrity, or never padded or "overstated" their own accomplishments, and actually WON the election. If your true to yourself, you will say none. This is exactly how getting kicks is today. Without pre-orders, bots, "editing coding", hook-ups, paying resell prices, and etc., you will never have a equal chance at getting anything you want, and majority of the time you would at a disadvantage right out of the gate. Anything you REALLY want in life, won't come at just doing the bare minimum. Whether it ranges from copping shoes or winning an election, to giving up many cards for one rare Yu-Gi-Oh card or getting on the high school basketball team, doing more is sometimes the only way to give yourself a remote or competitive chance at obtaining something you REALLY want.
