There's only so much juice to squeeze out of your loyal fanbase. This is why I've had zero interest in Soccer and Mooncarts after getting bit in the ass by Tower Defense.

This exactly, they created a play2earn model that actually works but instead of focusing on the Main game which is actually fun with a lot of potential, they just copy-past the model creating new tokens and 'games' that are nowhere near the quality of Splinterlands to milk more money.

Land should have just been an easy stake cards and be able to mint spells/items mechanism instead of wanting to make it into something as complicated and confusing as it is now.

I still hope they get everything right with Splinterlands as the potential surely is there.