This can be made easier by cheating the cards out somehow, but the way the card was intended to be used when the cards were made was that you would Normal Summon Aitsu, a Level 5 Normal Monster with 100 ATK and DEF, protect it enough until you could tribute 2 more Monsters to summon Koitsu and then attach Koitsu to Aitsu
Board wipes in particular have, rightly or wrongly, received some flack in the community for leading to stale, prolonged games
In my personal group, its well known that fellow RC member Scott Larabee is overly fond of Maze of Ith, so it becomes a strong metagame choice
Games with massive in-game economies such as World of Warcraft and Path of Exile 2 already deal with the issue of third parties selling the games' best items to players without the developers seeing a cut of the profits
Since its release, players have been opening packs of "Twilight Masquerade" to try and find the coveted Greninja ex Special Illustration Rare card