lmao if you think people level freeze for advanced refines then you're gravely mistaken; they do it to get more power, the little things like refines comes along the way; the main point of level freezing is to sustain your level whilst only increasing your power; there's every reason to do it than not to not.

the only reason why it's heavily discouraged is because older players who have just steam rolled their way through plot instances don't like seeing lower levels have more power than them; guess you could say it disrupts the balance of highlevel=highpower; then again hierarchy's are there to be broken