Nvm, I'm pretty frustrated right now, as the 95% of the "normal" players in the game. Is not even about the tokens price, which don't help at all, but about everything that has been going on this last year in Splinterlands. Too many things to detail, to be honest. I'm just tired.
You describe a current climate very different of what I have experienced. For Pete's sake, we have even been asked to FUND the core team to make the next expansion. This is bonkers. Splinterlands devs have earned Millions of dollars (Millions as in Tens of Millions of dollars) in the last few years and now they are behaving like if they are an Alpha Seed round bootscrapping a new project. Meanwhile, the vast majority of whales have been dumping in the market in the hundreds of thousand of dollars, which is understandable as they have made between a 1000% and a 3500% of their initial purchase. Meanwhile , they posts are about "Welcome to the family" and "look there has been 40,000 SPS burned" and "Hey let's create another promo, pay for it as I generate enough vouchers per hour to buy 20 for free" etc. etc.
As I tell you, all the picture is insane. I'm not even proofing what I'm writing, I'm just tired of this sh*t but let me assure that in a real life convo over a beer I could be listing problems and red flags for two hours straight.

At this point I'm just playing by inertia in Standard, with zero hopes, targets or fun.

Not a good sign. Again, nevermind and ty for the civil discussion.