Why is it that I get the feeling that the people who "whine" all the time, as Marin calls them, that would like something to be done, are actually the ones who have any hope (as unrealistic as that may be) for the future?
If even you GM fellas are resigned to think that the current situation is actually an optimistic estimate of how the future can be, then maybe we should just all give up. 
It's more that there's only so much that can be done - for inflation, for example, while free agency may make some small impact, it's not like there are enough users leaving the game with large amounts of players to prop up the market any significant amount. The types of changes that can affect that are either very slow to develop (train more players / create better "finished" players in the draft) or would radically change everything (speed up training / change training to be much more effective).
Realistically, a lot of the real "solutions" are things that would be great if the game were going to be rebooted, but don't make sense shoehorning into the game at this stage of its lifecycle, putting aside of course the question of resources. The best I can do is enjoy what's here the best I can, hope that things that can be changed will be, and accept the things that can't.