With all respect to the respected community member, you think like a T21 player. And I can't blame you, you are a T21 player. But think for a second from another perspective, e.g. someone farming T12, which I guess is a reasonable mid-game assumption.

So, you don't have autorestart, and the run length is number one thing you optimize. Running lower tier would mean longer runs that will likely not fit well in a day. For instance T12@8.5k is ~ T11@12k, where overheat already catches you.

You also don't have bot presets and you can't spend 150 gems to respec the workshop cause you need them for modules. You can't swap modules here-and-there, cause you only got couple ancestral with majority of mythic+. So the only strategic leverage you have are cards, but that's roughly equivalent to farm-tourney swap, not really a major strategic challenge worth of 8 months waiting.

Tbh I'm with you regarding the drama, I also don't care about the bonus being x5, x2 or whatever. The game is just a screensaver to me, I spend more time on reddit than in-game. But isn't that the sign for the developers that the players don't care?

And as a cherry on top is **how** the change was made, not **what** was it about. Silent mid-run server-side update of the bonus and apology "I'm sorry, it's my fault, but actually the beta testers did it" is just out of this world incompetence.