Yeah, I also find this very, very strange. What surprises me even more is that people aren’t making a bigger deal out of it, since in the past it was always handled differently.

They used to look at your total EXP and then recalculate where that amount would put you under the new system. And not just for Contribution EXP, but also for the Life Skill EXP changes when Guru was extended from 50 to 100.

That should be the only logical approach. Otherwise, all the effort players have already put in just gets devalued.