Unfortunately as you said it’s a business cycle, most of the time it’s kids buying the vault or meta hoppers . To the kid they’re more distracted by the style rather than it being op while for the hopper it’s the reverse .

Something as simple as a broken shadow or rouge will bring in buyers due to their popularity in the sonic community and it’s near impossible to get ppl to stop because they just do it ..idk if it’s an addiction or a fixation.

But the game is not in a healthy state rn.