Our HS baseball program has a budget that falls WAY short of needs, let alone nice-to-haves. We could not survive without generous parents kicking in. Some of the biggest givers over the last few years have kids sitting the bench currently. It becomes very clear quite quickly that helping our program financially is much appreciated but does not translate into favored playing time. We state it up front and stick to it. Sometimes those players play (because they are the better players) and sometimes they do not (because they are not the better players) Sometimes players are somewhere in between and when they do play, this is when the parents who are inclined to cry politics jump on their bandwagons.
I hoped you had taken away more useful information from your first posts last month.
This is how it has been at my son's school also. You don't play just because you contribute the most monetarily.