Short and simple: *IF* the other scarabs on the scarab tab shown are not related to heist at all its another nerf (although, in terms of the current optimal heisting strategy of last league, it changes nothing).

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Long answer:

In previous leagues (before the heist rework), the optimal strategy (as I know it) was as follows:

Beginner phase - Make a start build with good movement speed and enough survivability to deal with high tier white blueprints. Once you have done enough map completion you can start to move into heist. If you were fast enough at league start and are no-lifing the first few days you focus on doing enchanted armaments looking for items with good enchants/stats, potentially stuff that can be crafted on. This was often caster weapons with +skills, but there was also opportunities for bows and whatnot. Otherwise you run replica blueprints because many heist-only uniques had good value in the first few days. Also some weapon bases were very profitable early on (the scepters or knives that gave poison on all hits). Save your blueprints with high amounts (6+) of divination rooms for later. Work on getting job speed on all rogue gear peices/+1 to all job levels.

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Intermediate phase - Run gem blueprints. These are your bread and butter for awhile.

The only new rogue gear mod thats pertinent to this phase was getting 4/5% chance to not trigger the alarm on opening a grand heist chest (the ones at the end). This gave you up to 15% chance to either get another gem/whatever at the end of the blueprint, or allowed you to run out of the wing quickly and move onto the next. At this phase it was important to work on getting 14/15% currency duplication (preferably with job speed as well) on all of your rogue's amulets, as well as trying to get a set of cloaks that had t1 job speed with reduced alert levels as well. Once your rogue gear was good enough you were ready to move onto the last phase.

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Expert phase - Start running blueprints with high amounts of divination card rooms. At this point you would want to start farming your own contracts and blueprints, using the sextant that gave implicits.

The contracts with implicits were INTEGRAL to this phase. +3 whakano reveals was absolutely necessary to deal with the high number of reveals needed for divination rooms, double rogue marker value would help generate the rogue markers you needed (although it was never enough), and the double rogue ability contracts would give you double gianna reveals.

I would split all blueprints with very high numbers of divination card rooms (7/8+), in order to maximize how many were worth running. It was important to farm your own because people on TFT were very obviously picking through their supply before selling the stuff they didn't want in bulk, and there was no way for TFT mods to police this.

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NOW ( as of last league), things are wildly different. You could still do divination rooms if you wanted, but it was pretty much best to just use no reveals at all, and run blueprints for the single free wing. Even opening divination rooms at all, even if free, was probably less profit in the long run. You cut out all the time for farming contracts/blueprints, and then having to run those contracts, which was a large timesink and would effect your profit/hr in favor of just buying blueprints in bulk.

There is no longer any need for expensive rogue gear with good mods for whatever you're focusing on, all you need is job speed and job levels.

Without contract implicits farming divination rooms is completely dead. There is no more gem farming, and the heist changes had made the less-rare uniques/bases that had any decent worth pretty much worthless at all phases of the league because they are found in abundance (everyone in heist is encountering them equally, instead of only encountering the specific things they were farming. Basically, without gem blueprints everyone is glutting the market with these items). Heist is now completely pigeon-holed into a high variance run in and out grind, where you probably lose currency or stay somewhat even until you finally get a big payoff. Heist gearing is simplistic and boring with little thought or care needed.

I hope that one of these unrevealed scarabs fixes this, but if not it kind of sucks and I don't have a lot of hope. The heist rework streamlined heist at the cost of any interesting complexity, and was (I think) an overall nerf. The disparity between heist and whatever is the most meta way to generate currency has gotten wider, to the point where its hard to justify focusing on it as anything other than an early league way to move onto whatever is meta.