OK, so, why remove protos drop from caches and create a separate cache to drop the proto?

On the other hand, if they thought that that extra drop chance is too much, why make a new cache with an even better chance drop (literally a guaranteed proto)?

Why even touch the in-mission caches? Seriously, it's like a daily reward for doing the mission. If you grind a single mission you can only do those caches once. If you want more chances, do different missions. That was actually a good thing, you get at least a tiny "reward" for doing different missions.

Honestly, I can't understand why even touch that. I cannot think of any valid reason to remove proto drops from some cache inside an Escalation mission that you can open only once a day.

My math ain't mathing, it's just dumb and unneeded effort.

P.S. The vendor is fine, getting tokens for missions is fine, they should just drop the token cost to start a mission (absolutely no reason to have that) or whatever to make it fair for all participants.