User blog comment:Crimson Storm Mich/Future Units Preview v2/@comment-30905905-20170425135620/@comment-8647678-20170426134443

The entire point of the legacy OEs is to offer unlucky players a good substitude for the RS units, nothing more. They are not supposed to really change the meta or anything, they are just there to help those who can make good use of them. As a F2P, every legacy OE offers something that I can't get otherwise, unless I luck out and get one of the recent rare summon units.

As for whales (or pingus or whatever you call them), of course they'll not have that much use since they are usually outclassed the moment they are implemented into the game.