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Guild Wars 2 has a system a lot like what the OP's proposed - all exotic gears are BoE, all ascended gears are account-bound, there's no p2p trading, you can mail gear and gold to another player, but there's a limit on how much you can send. All kinds of trading must go through a centralized trading-post.
With allllllllll those in place, a quick google of "Guild wars 2 buy gold" still turns up with quite many hits. I guess that's a proof that the above mechanisms weren't effective at dealing with RMT.
And honestly I can really care less about those few streamers or guild friends who gets sponsored and power leveled. As an artisan-focused player I'd take a free & active player economy over "strict fairness" any day.
Also I don't think pvp twinks will even exist in Ashes. Due to the mixed lv zones, corruption, and bounty hunter mechanics, anyone who goes on ganking in a mid-level character in expensive gear will just make themselves a sweet target for higher level players passing by, or high level BH players looking for their preys. i.e. "twinks" will face a very high risk of losing their expensive gear. I imagine it would be much more reasonable for gankers to go with max-level characters in 2nd tier gear.
Anyway, no. Don't turn ashes into another Guild War, don't turn Ashes into another Wow.
If we wanted theme parks we would've stayed in wow, if we wanted fair-land we would've stayed in gw2. I believe many of us are only here because Ashes has promised something different.
In response to your updated post I would say this:
Congratulations on having friends in high places. Welcome to Ashes of Creation. 😎
Gold selling and boosting will allways happen.
That doesnt mean you should do nothing against it but it also doesnt mean that you punish the entire playerbase for a few people.
Personally i loved the player to player trading in Ragnarok.
It gave guilds the ability to rend out gear during raids and pvp events.
when i first played BDO and saw no P2P trading it was a huge let down.
Gold sellers will be reported and Steven is a fan of perma ban.
That the gold sellers have to buy the 15$ sub every time they make a new account is allready a big deterend.
To stop free trial account gold selling, all they have to do is lock trading until people payed for their sub.
Acive GMs, Systems that check big transitions and you are done.
As long as the GMs know for example that Guy A just gave Guy B a big number of Gold or many small packages of gold but gave nothing in return. Then it should be fine.
In addition there will allways be people that report the issue.
For now im hoping they stick with no limit Player to player trading.
See how it goes and adjust according to data, not according to what could happen.