Correct. And I honestly don't see a problem in that, considering those people (Shar, maybe Tim, etc.) aren't doing anything to get those items/cash out - no drop parties, no item selling, etc.
I don't disagree on the fact that we can improve the state of the game with a reset (mainly the quality of pking), but without any changes to the game itself that reset wont do anything, but decrease our player count.