Let's be real, you can't seriously expect the leveling rate of the server to be tuned to cater to the people with the least time. There will always be people who can play a lot and that can't play very little. We have to look at the averages and how long the largest slice of the player base took/will take to level, and align it with the time frame we have for the content. If you can only play very little, you should naturally join with the expectation you will either have to make that time count or accept you will lag behind.
Also, this not at you, but those saying we "listened to ten players," just stop. On one side, we didn't do it because a small group was asking for x3, it was to align the pace players were leveling in the beta with our expectations. And on the other side, the people complaining we aren't using x5 are even less than the ones who were asking for x3, so, by your own argument, we shouldn't listen to you.