Hard resets are necessary because at some point, servers economy that doesn't work anymore. Players will find ways to earn even more money and if there isn't any regular newcomers, players are going only to get richer and richer and the gap between newcomers and players who are just playing two months is just bigger. Afterwards, servers economy lose its value at some point as it is now.
Mike already said that this is going to happen, so it's better to create topics to help him with the solution on how to make the economy relevant again, to be fair to older AND newer players. He wouldn't do this if the knows he will lose his playerbase.
I underline everything chuppy said.