Thing on equipmment is, stats are only a portion of the fight result formula. There are good and bad fighters independent of all other factors due to hidden stats, and a large part of the game is learning to weed out the bad and keep the good.
A good fighter raised in a poor equipment camp who trains proper stats and selects proper styles can absolutely reach the top and get efc belts over better equipped camps. A good figher who fails in all other areas can still see limited success against better camps, which is why a newer camp would be able to beat fighters from much older, better equipped coaches. However obtaining and properly defending an EFC belt, reaching hall of fame or #1 fighter status, building a legend who can compete with other camps, those are other matters, and those are goals that typically take some time and equipment building to reach. That is the long term meta for this game, and what better equipment truly opens up.
A shortcut to reach that point can come through community and alliance connections. There are alliances with plenty of well equipped camps lying around they could hand off to a player to give them a leg up. Whether doing this is frowned upon depends I think on how the player interracts wth the community and how they play, whether they follow ettiquette or can crush or not. I inherited one early on with a couple of 5 mils, gave me a taste of what better equipment was like. After building my own camps I don't even run it anymore and could hand it off to another player if needed.
Another shortcut to better equipment is to spend real money on credits, credits for camp cash, and cash for equipment. Some players have followed this route over the years, but normally players don't reach the top teirs of what the game can offer without being familiar with the grind and how to build.
On releasing the builds though I am team release them, but that is a long term debate a lot of discussion has already gone on about here.