Someone is very overly mad, full of pride and full of hubris. Perhaps that 1600 team that stomped you was just on its way up, and are well above you now? Stop your whining. You are just blaming anything and everything to make up for your losses. It has nothing to even do with the current topic. Blame you being sick, blame your DK friend leaving for work, blame Ret being bad, blame "americans" win trading, blame whatever you want. I know you seem to think you are just plain the best player out there, but get over yourself. You're being out skilled, out geared, and countered.
Either way, it has nothing to do with the "unfair catch up problem." Others have invested more time, so should have better gear. This is how RPG's and WoW has always been, and this is how Arena has always been since BC.