Nobody is forced to play
@Sir Knighter Server. If you don't like the way he does things simply quit. The fact you are still here means you do care and you would most likely wish to be able to easily compete with Donors. It is not meant to be like this. Every server needs to cover their fees and given Knighter invests even in paid mappers/scripters and does put a lot of effort into Archlight it is like with any buisiness which is why donators are having an adventage. If he wasn't going to try to make money it would backfire. Sure there are some people who do not need to worry about an income to cover their fees and host their servers trully for free (without donors) but in most cases this does not apply.
That being said I am sure
@Sir Knighter is making sure to enable the non-donators just as much as possible to compete with the donators. There have been far worse servers around there in terms of p2w.
Kind regards,
Damon