Left clicking a person for 25 minutes to see who's armor breaks first isn't PvP. If that's what you think PvP is then my assumption of the fact that you're really REALLY bad at PvP is 100% accurate.
I'd rather be burned alive than do that.
You want to see who's good at pvp? 1v1 no armor, wood sword me.
Go ahead and remove notch apples and poison potions, possibly the strength potions as well.
3 minutes is an awful long time to have a pvp match.
Maybe if its a hide and seek type of match.
Or maybe the people have set some kind of warp point where they can keep coming no matter how many times you kill them.
It's not brainless, it takes skill. PvP is brainless when you fight for 25 minutes. If we're both iron armor iron sword, you can't call the winner 'noskill' or the fight 'brainless', because it was an even matchup. If you're willing to elaborate on how PvP in an even matchup is brainless, I'd appreciate it.
Assuming everyone has full set of iron, or diamond armor, which they might.
This goes back to basically making the best weapons and armor anyone can have be ordinary wood and leather.
[edit]: And maybe I should point out that realistically, it's impossible to have an even match-up.
If we remove all success factors except for pure pvp skill from Kami's Realm, we might as well call it AoD 2 or something, because even a pvp-type smp is going to mean more than just pvp. The reason why so many people enjoy smp is because, even though fighting is a thing, you aren't spending every minute beating people to death.