@Purple
in some ways, yes. there are lockouts for certain activities, such as some raids, which prevents multi-hour continuous farming.
there's a difference between "i need some gold, i can mine for an hour then head to bed" vs "the game is built around dailies which take 15 hours and if you dont do them you'll be behind by millions at the end of the year". you can replace gold with reputation too.
giving a set amount of gold via dailies also speeds up the inflation in the game. while the people who can run them, daily, aren't hurt. those that fall behind eventually can't afford the things. it happened in WoW, where looking at the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth, the mount was 20k gold which was a whole amount during the WotLK expansion. had a person done the dailies during the TBC expansion then they would have had the gold easily to afford the mount back in 2008. fast forward to 2019, the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur cost 5 million gold. just leveling in BFA can net a character over 20k gold.
basically you either play the daily stuff to maintain your gold cushion, you play the market, struggle, or buy it via the Tokens.