You don't understand why people use gold/barter exploits for the exact same reason that i will literally never understand people wanting to hike their difficulty up and then use personal limiting rules to make it even harder. I had a new barter exploit figured out a few hours after the update. Larian can try to patch individual exploits out, but the base exploit is regarding the barter code and how it interacts with multi-item select within containers, which will have to be re-done if they want to stop barter exploits entirely.
I've had this exact same same conversation from the other side when my friend asked me how to activate the cheat console in an old rpg, then proceeded to just cheat their way through the game. I didn't understand how that could be fun for them, but in the end it was a single player game, so it really didn't affect me at all.
If there was literally a story-mode option for "roll 20", then I probably would have used it in one of my games already. We're playing the game in different ways to get different things out of it. Neither of us is doing it wrong because it's a single player game and what we do in our private games have no impact on each other.
And, my dissatisfaction with Larian patching said barter exploits has a lot more to do with me being upset about the continuing lack of patches to fix the performance issues, broken quests, sounds not working, and events that just never seem to fire properly, rather than just being annoyed at them patching barter exploits.
