During LvE, the first, last April, Earth only had a public buy while Light had a raffle.

Or do you mean no out of flight help at all?

Because, yeah, there is a ton of previous vented outrage built up around that concept. Just check the last AR post or two.
Earth v Plague had a lot of salt for doing minimal oof involvement (both only had small public buys).

Basically boils down to not including OOF isn't fun for anyone.