Get off your high horse. You act like you have never done anything wrong in your life. You are not perfectly moral so don't ask like you are. Most factions dont want to deal with DLs with billions of defense so the best thing to do is get your attack higher than they defense if you can? A PA is worth 25 gold or 2 dollars and 50 cents. Thats how much you lose from the attack, thinking your 9.87b attack would be enough to drop most or any PA.
If that how this WD is, the stay competitive, if you choose to not do it and lose because of it, then dont complain when the option is open to you as well. Im sure your factions benefits from all those gunners dropped using glitch money each frontline.