Looks like I slept through a super interesting discussion^^

Personally I enjoy the auctions. Granted, I think there could be improvements (beeing able to list more auctions, listing auctions for shorter times, more customization options of the snipeguard and minimum increase of bids...) but generally I don't think it's a bad system since it gives players more to do than a system where you can buy the items instantly.
Also if I need a specific item, the auctions are not the place I go to anyways. Discord is the best place for that so I don't have to interact with the auctions if I don't want to. Which of cource means they are only as stressfull to me as I want them to be^^

I do think there is a huge problem with the economy and a lot of the frustrations mentioned in this topic are a result of that problem. The auction system is just showing the symptoms, not causing them though. The problem really boils down to inflation and too many rarer items/eggs with not enough use for them in my opinion. While we are hopefully soon getting a good pc sink, we also recently had more pc added to the game through roodoku, which was a terrible and unnecessary idea^^'