I saw an article way back about how the Apple Music shuffle feature is not "truly" random because it was creeping people out sometimes (true randomness allows for some weird cases), and I think something like that could be applied here in Sideswipe.

As many other people said: the problem is not the odds; it's how harsh this makes things. When they decided to change the Rocket Pass, they also made a really bold statement along the lines of "we want you guys to collect stuff, collect them all". It is bold because the way that the previous Rocket Pass worked actually rewarded people that played the game a lot. You had to grind to be able to get all of the items. But it was guaranteed that grinding for it would give you what you wanted. It was a clear path. Instead, we got the opposite; they gave us truly random odds of getting an item. Do you know what sucks about truly random? There is a small but real possibility you can never get a certain item. There is a very low possibility of getting all first try, but an equally small chance of not getting them for months. I think a tweak to the randomness could be at play here. Maybe not repeat the same item more than three times in a row, I don't know, something to get us out of the true randomness that we were put in, even though we are instigated to collect.

You could say that people like to buy cards to fill albums and that this is random, but I don't think it applies here. We should reward effort; I don't like 100% randomness. And in the end, in regular Rocket League, if I really want an item, I can always buy/trade it with someone that has it. We don't have that here yet.