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While in a sense, what you are saying is true, most MMOs are not purely skill and reaction based (more correctly twitch based) games like an arcade game and FPS. I'm sure you know most MMOs are RPGs and they usually have character levels, which as such already create a huge ability difference when this value alone have a significant difference between two players. Of course skill with playing your character to the outmost is important and does have a part in affecting the outcome of a fight between players, however, this is still hugely different from a controlled combat environment like in an arcade arena since a lot of games provide PVP even in the "wild". Also, in MMOs, there are gear, skill choices, talents, ability level, stats, races, and sometimes more, differences where a player can choose how to "configure" their characters. Also, to design characters like what you are saying basically loses the flavor of each type of class that you can play (for example how are you actually going to balance using that system, classes like Spiritmaster, where your summoned elementals are a huge factor?). The arcade game design to balance the game as that is an overly simple design that is not very suitable for MMOs in general. Even within arcade games like that, certain characters tend to be better suited to break another character (but this is less of a factor when player skill and reaction is still the major factor when it comes to it), with some characters having unbreakable (some consider it exploitable) abilities/combos which any character once caught, meant certain defeat.
While I'm not saying the RPS system is flawless, it is not, it still serves as a guideline for balancing some MMOs, as the RPS systems for MMOs are never static (sometimes paper do not win rock, and scissors do not always cut paper).
P.S. not sure if I'm writing all my thoughts on the matter correctly, a little rushed to post this as I'm kinda busy with the lunar new year stuff here and all.
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