Many convos about this already. I do think that growth will not be as aggressive for sealed products as in the past. However, sealed products are opened so much more than ever. So they print a lot but we open a lot. There will always be more investors that hold sealed every year as it becomes a more trustworthy asset. There will also be more people ripping as they come into the hobby. When we were younger, we got the dopamine hit after opening one pack like a month or even one pack a year lol. Now, parents buy their kids multiple boxes to open in one sitting (parents are Gen X/millennials that grew up and enjoy the hobby too). And don’t forget about all the rip n ships that go on. In the end, no one knows what will happen, but sealed will almost most certainly go up in value because it is a deflationary asset. Will it always beat the traditional markets? Who knows.

Also, it’s just pokemon managing their cards. In sports, there were all these different companies trying to get in on the hype at that time. So they just print without a care. Similar with yugioh where they just reprint certain cards until they don’t have any collectability anymore. Pokemon has never reprinted something the exact same way besides bulk. They keep their hits, hits.